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Article: Flying dragon; Painfully separated from her mother at age 12, Chinese musician Gao Hong has traveled the globe in pursuit of her art. Her music and her story are coming to the Southern Theater.(FREETIME)
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- Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN)
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- March 24, 2000
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A memory that haunts Gao Hong, the virtuoso pipa player who lives in Minnesota, is set in her native China. She was 12 when, late one night, her mother took her to a fortune-teller. Hong, she said, would be a "flying dragon, always traveling," and would have to "make her home in her heart."
That memory, and the image of a flying dragon, are key elements in "Song of the Pipa," which will premiere Saturday in Minneapolis. Written by Theater Mu artistic director Rick Shiomi, the play weaves Hong's story about her family's hardships during Mao Zedong's Cultural Revolution with the tale of Bai Juyi, a Chinese official in exile who wrote a poem, "Song of the Pipa," ...
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