OPEN SOURCE: In Global Culture Space - Rana Dasgupta & Hung-Kuan Chen
From: Radio Open Source with Christopher Lydon
Length: 58:59
This week we're talking to two intrepid explorers of the global culture space: a prize storyteller and a sublime pianist.
Rana Dasgupta is an English-Indian novelist who trades in fables and folklore as the ancients did, but his theme is the mix in our heads today of digital euphoria and an air of catastrophe around the disorder that new orders (and this global order of things) always create. His prize-winning novel is Solo, set in Bulgaria's 20th-century past and 21st-century future.
Hung-Kuan Chen is a classical pianist considering the three-way convergence in geopolitics and his life: He's an American citizen, teaching the music of Vienna--of Beethoven and Mozart--in Shanghai and the land of 80 million young keyboard students.
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Piece Description
This week we're talking to two intrepid explorers of the global culture space: a prize storyteller and a sublime pianist.
Rana Dasgupta is an English-Indian novelist who trades in fables and folklore as the ancients did, but his theme is the mix in our heads today of digital euphoria and an air of catastrophe around the disorder that new orders (and this global order of things) always create. His prize-winning novel is Solo, set in Bulgaria's 20th-century past and 21st-century future.
Hung-Kuan Chen is a classical pianist considering the three-way convergence in geopolitics and his life: He's an American citizen, teaching the music of Vienna--of Beethoven and Mozart--in Shanghai and the land of 80 million young keyboard students.
Musical Works
| Title | Artist | Album | Label | Year | Length |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bartok - Out of Doors | Hung-Kuan Chen | 00:00 | |||
| Beethoven - Clavier Op. 106 | Hung-Kuan Chen | 00:00 | |||
| skr jabin | Hung-Kuan Chen | 00:00 |
