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Spring Cellist, Spring!
Leading the basso continuo on the Bach Concerto for Two Violins in D minor at the University of Washington, Seattle -- photo courtesy Seattle Metropolitan Chamber Orchestra With more to come about...
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Documenting Cultural Exchange: Performance at Southwest Nationalities...
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Edward Said as Prose Stylist
I recently was confronted with the absolute revelation of the parallel career of Edward Said, comparative literature professor at New York University and famous analyst of the Arab world, as nothing...
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A Little Musical Diplomacy
China is presently thundering its way into some heavily-historically-documented commemorations of the 60th anniversary of the PLA’s arrival in Tibet, while at the same time bringing the rhetorical...
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“US-China Musical Diplomacy” at the US Consulate in Chengdu
Adam Cathcart and Andreas Boelcke perform Gao Ping's Cello Sonata at US Consulate-General Chengdu, July 2011 25 July 2011 Dr. Adam Cathcart Sino-U.S Relations Lecture at the Chengdu U.S Consulate...
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Commemorating 9/11 in Berlin
I spent last weekend in Berlin, the main purpose being to perform at the 9/11 Commemoration Service at the American Church in Berlin organized by the U.S. Embassy there. Along with Andreas Boelcke (who...
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Shanghai Impressions, or, What Cellistic Ennui Tells Us about Cultural...
A few days in Shanghai rarely fails to reorient one immediately from wherever illusory place one has been prior. In Shanghai, China’s upward thrust is paired with its revolutionary guts, its past...
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Solo
Virtually nothing was posted in January because I was parted from my main axe in Seattle; she needed work, and I needed time to teach and lecture and write, here and in London. Now the sphere turns...
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Orchestrating Changes on the Multi-Front Electronic Struggle
Decamping from Chengdu, late summer 2012 Recapitulation | After a solid run of 32 months, the academic weblog Sinologistical Violoncellist has reached its logical conclusion. Since beginning in April...
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