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![[New!]](images/smallnew.gif) January 17, 2012:
Don will present a talk about China to the Modern Mind Group of
the Unitarian Universalist Congregation of
Atlanta (UUCA) located in Atlanta. His talk, "China 2012: A Futuristic
Retrospective," will explore many of the beliefs Westerners have regarding
China, and will expose sources of some of the myths regarding freedom,
politics and economics in China. It is at 9:30AM in rooms 209-210, on the
back left side when entering through the front door. Free childcare is
available; directions to the church are
here.
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October 15-16, 2011:
Don will participate in
Riptide Coaster Raid's upcoming visit to
Wutong Shan
in Shenzhen. Of the twelve artists presenting, he will be the one providing
music. His project: find someone native to
Wutong Shan
and collaborate to create a song about
Wutong Shan
to be presented at the event. Click
here
for additional information about
Coaster
Raid. He will be there most of both days; the time of his special
30 minute presentation has not yet been set.
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September, 2011:
Links for China-UK College students are here.
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September, 2011:
Don is the new "Performance Art" teacher at
中英公学 (zhong ying gong xue),
China-UK College. The school's website (in Chinese) is
http://www.zygx.com.cn. You may see his
presentation at school (including pictures) about the dangers of smoking
here.
July 23, 2011: Don's first Zen of
Zen concert, to be presented at
F518 Idea Land in
Bao'an, Shenzhen.
The first half will be various compositions including songs written in
China, and even a couple in Chinese! (Someone else will be singing, though.)
He will also accompany his arrangement of a traditional Chinese song. The
second half will be all music and no talk, all improvised and personalized
for the audience. The concert is free, but visitors will have an opportunity
to contribute in exchange for a copy of the poster signed by Don. Additional
information about Don's concert may be found
here in
Chinese and
here in English. His promotional poster may be seen
here.
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July 2011:
Don is now associated with Mr. Wang Lixin's "Shenzhen Music Sound Co.,
Ltd. music school. You may find out more information (in Chinese) at
http://www.szyymusic.com/msfc.asp
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June-July 2011:
Now in Shenzhen. Taught the tail end of the term at
中英公学 (zhong ying gong xue), China-UK College,
which is actually a K-12 pre-college international prep school. Taught some
English, but mostly taught "performance arts": under Don's coaching, the
15-member 10th grade class created and prepared their final presentation
that they gave on July 1st. It included drama, song, and the introduction of
the school song that the class wrote. The school's website is
www.zygx.com.cn
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- March, 2011: Back in
Nanchang February after a month's visit to the States. Celebrated my
parent's 68th Wedding Anniversary and my father's 89th birthday! The Winter
Dayu term begins early March.
- March 12, 2010:
"Spirituality of Music." Don's famous talk about music as language. People
say their musical experience is never again the same upon hearing this
presentation. Presented at his school, Jiangxi
Dayu, Wanli District, Nanchang, Jiangxi.
- February 14, 21, 2010:
Don will
play music for the Sunday morning services
at the Unitarian
Universalist Church of Gwinnett in
Lawrenceville, Georgia (click for map). The service begins at 10:30AM.
- January 27, 2010:
Don will
present his talk "China
– A Futuristic Retrospective" at the
Unitarian
Universalist Church of Gwinnett in
Lawrenceville, Georgia (click for map). The talk begins at 7:00PM. The
optional dinner starts at 6:30PM, but if you want to join in the dinner, you
must RSVP with Lois by Monday. Her number is 770-806-8305. The talk is free;
dinner is $7 per adult, $4 per child, and $20 max per family. A list of
un-annotated links to my resources for this talk may be found
here.
- February 6, 2010
(moved from January 23): Home Concert --
Cobb County, Georgia. Don will be performing at a private home
concert. Click here for details and
to find out more about home concerts.
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- January 11, 2010: Don is the featured
January speaker at the monthly meeting of the
Atlanta Nation
Discussion Group (Atlanta, Georgia). The meeting will be at the new
Avis G. Williams Library on McConnell Street in Decatur, at 6:45PM. The topic: "China
–
A Futuristic Retrospective."
- Jiangxi Dayu, the
school where Don teaches, will have its own English and Music websites in
February (maybe). Look for www.JiangxiDayuEnglish.com and
www.JiangxiDayuMusic.com.
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- October, 2009: The
site is updated with Don's thoughts on intellectual property, plus the
availability for download of the entire Gathering Lights CD.
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September, 2009: Site finally
accessible in China! For what is probably a "keep out SPAM" reason, China
blocks any sites hosted by GoDaddy.com, which includes this site. The reason
you can see this now is because my new host is in China.
Press Releases
- November 14, 2009 -- A newspaper story is published in
the Jiangxi News; click
here to see the online version. (Scroll down to see the picture.)
- November 13, 2009 -- A newspaper story is published in
 ; click
here
to see the online version.
- November 10, 2009 -- A story about Don is published in
江西大宇学院报
(Jiangxi Dayu Xue Yuan Bao), the Jiangxi Dayu College
school newspaper.
- September 9, 2009 -- After another 11 months of dormancy, OrfeoMusic.org
is back up! There were ongoing difficulties with translation to get the
involved parties to successfully move the site to its Chinese host. In
America, Don was a computer guru; in China, Don is a computer idiot!
- June 17, 2008 -- After six months of dormancy, OrfeoMusic.org is again
being updated to reflect Don's current living situation. The site updating
is scheduled for completion by July 1, 2008.
- September, 2007 -- Don is an instructor of English as a Second Language
(ESL) and of music at one of the major private universities in China,
Jiangxi Dayu Vocational and Technical University, Nanchang, China.
- February 2, 2005 -- Don has accepted the position of Music Director for
the Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Gwinnett, in Lawrenceville, GA, a
Northeast suburb of Atlanta. He'll be building their music program from
scratch.
- August 11, 2003 -- Press Release
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