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European orchestras tend to be opinionated—German orchestras especially. Playing the Brahms concerto in Germany—Brahms’ homeland??was a challenge for me because I am Japanese-American and have a heritage that has nothing to do with Germanic or Austrian music. But I could immediately tell [the music I was playing] just fit there. It was just natural for the audience and the orchestra. It was the same playing a Paganini Concerto with an Italian orchestra and Lorin Maazel. I felt like I was just playing by myself because they were...
...Gardner Visiting Artist Fellow at the Peabody Museum, is currently using her time at Harvard to put this notion into practice. Quraeshi’s work, which is currently displayed in “Sacred Spaces” as part of her fellowship, attempts to translate her conception of homeland??a complicated interweaving of her birth in India, Pakistani Muslim upbringing, and Catholic education—into a cultural experience...
...possible for students of many backgrounds to find a decent restaurant or grocery store which meets their needs. But some international students don’t have this luxury. Often, it’s more than a matter of just finding a good cook of your homeland??s cuisine—some of the ingredients are impossible to find in Massachusetts. When Sengeh craves traditional Sierra Leonean food, he gets resourceful. “I have an aunt in Houston who sends me food sometimes,” Sengeh says. “So it?...
...have diminished in the six years since Noonan’s column. For the listener able to ignore the term’s ubiquity, “Homeland Security” retains its sinister ring.What is more, the drive to recast our great nation as a “homeland?? belittles America as an ideal. Americans have never been defined by a common geographic or ethnic heritage so much as by a shared investment in a set of democratic values. What sets the United States apart from almost any nation on earth is this conception that...
Throughout the last several years, the American-led “War on Terror” has engendered impassioned debate. In this country, Congress has been beset by animated wrangling over the policies that safeguard the homeland??s security; and overseas, American influence over many countries’ political realities makes engagement with these issues unavoidable. Yet, underlying the majority of formal political discourse on the subject, an unhealthy consensus prevails. Generally speaking, all concerned agree on the basic premise of the “War on Terror”: the “terrorist...