{"id":14772,"date":"2007-09-21T21:37:31","date_gmt":"2007-09-22T04:37:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/2007\/09\/21\/traveling-across-cultures-for-a-sons-star-turn-daniel-j-wakin\/"},"modified":"2007-09-21T21:37:31","modified_gmt":"2007-09-22T04:37:31","slug":"traveling-across-cultures-for-a-sons-star-turn-daniel-j-wakin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/2007\/09\/traveling-across-cultures-for-a-sons-star-turn-daniel-j-wakin\/","title":{"rendered":"Traveling Across Cultures for a Son&#8217;s Star Turn &#8211; Daniel J. 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A wave of talent has begun flowing out in recent years, and Mr. Xu is among the elite of those performers. His teachers, Jerome Lowenthal at the Juilliard School and Douglas Humpherys at the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, point to his brilliant technique, soulful lyricism and command of nuance. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2007\/09\/21\/arts\/music\/21hong.html?_r=1&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss&oref=slogin\" target=\"_blank\">[Full text]<\/a><span style=\"color:#1919ff;text-decoration:underline;\"><br \/>\n<br \/><\/span>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>\n<span style=\"color:#1919ff;text-decoration:underline;\"><br \/>\n<br \/><\/span><span style=\"color:#000004;\">[Image: Hong Xu, from the New York Times]<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The New York Times tells the story of pianist Xu Hong and his parents, who came from China to watch him perform with the Julliard Orchestra: The Xu family&#8217;s story &#8221; of parental sacrifice; of a son&#8217;s migration to the West for training; of his endless, single-minded study &#8221; brings together the many strands of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[1076,1078],"class_list":["post-14772","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture","tag-classical-music","tag-musicians","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v24.1 (Yoast SEO v24.1) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Traveling Across Cultures for a Son&#039;s Star Turn - Daniel J. 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