Chou wen chung biography of barack obama

Music may be "The Universal Language," but it becomes immediately obvious that its practice is very different in far-flung corners of our planet.  Going back one more step, the creation of that music is deeply imbedded in the social, political and psychological makeup of both the individual composer and the local (and national) groups that are our larger communities.

Composer Chou Wen-chung [pronounced tso wen-tsoong] grew up in China and has been in the United States since early adulthood, so his ideas and output perhaps reflect a duo-status better than almost anyone else.  His pivot-point came at the time when the old China was about to dissolve and his upbringing had absorbed the ways and feelings of an ancient civilization.

A more detailed biography is placed at the end of this conversation, but much of what he has to say needs little - if any - introduct