It seems that I’m having all kinds of new musical experiences lately, and I am certainly not complaining!
A couple days ago some friends of mine brought over to my house a couple musician friends of theirs. They turned out to be guitarists, but they played guitar like no one I’ve ever heard! Their style is […]
A couple days ago I went to eat at the palace, and while I was there I had the pleasure of listening to a trio of Uyghur musicians perform Uyghur folk and Mukam songs. They were playing a tambur, a ghijak and a dutar.
Okay, I admit, it wasn’t a “real” palace; it was a Uyghur […]
Last week a dust storm came through Kashgar. Now, I don’t know if you’ve ever been in a dust storm, but this one wasn’t like any other dust storms I’ve been in. When we lived in Beijing, there were some REALLY bad dust storms where the whole sky turned orange and the wind whipped the […]
It stinks to be sick anytime, but it especially stinks if you’re sick while you’re in the midst of activities that you desperately want to participate in, but can’t because you’re sick.
That was my situation for the past few weeks. (”What was I doing in the weeks before I got sick??” you ask. Well I […]
