{"id":3632,"date":"2008-11-10T19:42:18","date_gmt":"2008-11-11T03:42:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/?p=3632"},"modified":"2008-11-10T19:46:10","modified_gmt":"2008-11-11T03:46:10","slug":"carlsbads-wu-man-named-a-usa-fellow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/?p=3632","title":{"rendered":"Carlsbad&#8217;s Wu Man Named A USA Fellow"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/1680-wu-work1.jpg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/1680-wu-work1.jpg','popup','width=300,height=450,scrollbars=no,resizable=yes,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=yes,left=0,top=0');return false\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/1680-wu-work1-tm.jpg\" height=\"300\" width=\"200\" border=\"1\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"1680-Wu-Work1\" \/><\/a>Today, Carlsbad&#8217;s <strong>Wu Man,<\/strong> 43, was announced a winner of the annual <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.unitedstatesartists.org\/Public2\/Home\/index.cfm\" target=\"_blank\">United States Aritist Fellowship<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Wu Man is an internationally renowned pipa virtuoso. The pipa is a lutelike Chinese instrument that has a two-thousand-year history. Wu studied a classical style of pipa at the Central Conservatory of Music in Beijing, receiving the first master\u2019s degree in that instrument. She immigrated to the United States in 1990, at the age of 25. Wu performs traditional pipa music and also interprets specially commissioned works by composers such as <strong>Terry Riley<\/strong>, <strong>Philip Glass<\/strong>, and <strong>Tan Dun<\/strong>. She has performed as a soloist with many orchestras and is a principal member of <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.silkroadproject.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Yo- Yo Ma\u2019s Silk Road Project<\/a><\/strong>. Wu was the first Chinese musician to perform at the White House. A.C.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.unitedstatesartists.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">United States Artists <\/a><\/strong>(USA) is a grant-making organization dedicated to supporting America&#8217;s finest living artists working in in a diverse array of disciplines. And to think, Wu lives in <em>Carslbadistan<\/em>. We are proud to see our Village associated with such talent. Even if we don&#8217;t exactly know what a pipa sounds like.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.unitedstatesartists.org\/Public2\/USAFellows\/index.cfm\" target=\"_blank\">United States Artists<\/a><\/strong><strong> via <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/latimesblogs.latimes.com\/culturemonster\/2008\/11\/arts-winners.html\" target=\"_blank\">LA Times<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today, Carlsbad&#8217;s Wu Man, 43, was announced a winner of the annual United States Aritist Fellowship. Wu Man is an internationally renowned pipa virtuoso. The pipa is a lutelike Chinese instrument that has a two-thousand-year history. Wu studied a classical style of pipa at the Central Conservatory of Music in Beijing, receiving the first master\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,23],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3632"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3632"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3632\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}