新年好

It’s Chinese New Year! Welcome the Year of the Rooster by revisiting this article I wrote for the Trenton Times in 2012, about Chinese violinist and composer Ma Sicong, a political exile who lived out his life in Philadelphia, and whose music was revived locally by West Windsor’s Bravura Philharmonic Orchestra.

http://www.nj.com/times-entertainment/index.ssf/2012/03/bravura_philharmonic_orchestra.html

Ma Sicong’s Symphony No. 2:

Ma Sicong works for violin:

Ma receives a write-up in Life Magazine (as “Ma Sitson”):

https://books.google.com/books?id=fFYEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA33-IA7&lpg=PA33-IA7&dq=ma+sitson&source=bl&ots=lIbQrfR9mt&sig=ty77F5853DbQMAH6xFaAGaOqqx0&hl=en&sa=X&ei=jQAVT86gNufu0gGZs5zDAw&ved=0CDcQ6AEwAw#v=onepage&q=ma%20sitson&f=false