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...moviemakers to receive international acclaim, made his reputation with sumptuously detailed stories of stern teachers and yearning students. His latest work, Together, is another fable of pedagogy, but with a much lighter touch?there cannot have been a more charming, disarming movie in Toronto. A 13-year-old violin prodigy arrives in Beijing with his father, who is determined the boy will have the very best teacher?the one, that is, with the clout to make his son famous. This scenario risks stumbling into villainizing or bathos, yet Prof. Chen (who plays one of the teachers) is as sure...
...would regularly quiz her mother about which half of her was white and which was Japanese. "I thought there was a physical line that divided the Japanese me from the Caucasian me," says Ferronato, now 18 and a high school senior. A soccer goalie who plays the violin and has her eye on pre-med studies, Ferronato says her racial identity developed in stages. At her mostly white elementary school, she considered herself a white person "who happened to eat a lot of sticky rice." But in the ninth grade at her diverse high school, another student, who is white...
...would regularly quiz her mother about which half of her was white and which was Japanese. "I thought there was a physical line that divided the Japanese me from the Caucasian me," says Ferronato, now 18 and a high school senior. A soccer goalie who plays the violin and has her eye on pre-med studies, Ferronato says her racial identity developed in stages. At her mostly white elementary school, she considered herself a white person "who happened to eat a lot of sticky rice." But in the ninth grade at her diverse high school, another student, who is white...
...PORT TOWNSEND, WASH. On Independence weekend, fiddlers from across North America will gather in Port Townsend for the Festival of American Fiddle Tunes. The fiddlers--experts on violin and banjo--will play traditional tunes from their hometowns across the U.S., Canada and Mexico...
...teaching Hebrew school together during freshman year became more than a way to reach out to the Jewish community. They began dating at the beginning of sophomore year when Spinowitz surprised Day with tickets to hear Itzhak Perlman and the Boston Symphony play Tchaikovksy’s Violin Concerto...