Cultural Politics… Bookworming, Burrowing, Heralding Schumann’s Rebirth 22 Dec 2010 On a cold-by-Sichuan-standard evening not long ago, I teamed up with composer-pianist Gao Ping to present two collections of character pieces by Robert Schumann to a fine audience of literati…
Art… Challenges 5 Oct 20095 Oct 2009 Heinrich Heine and Robert Schumann are each like a giant mountain. To climb either one, to survey and to know the whole output of either man is to stumble up…