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VOLUME 2 NUMBER 2 WINTER 2005 |
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Stanford Pan-Asian Music Festival |
| The music of Asia will be
the focus of a series of events coming to campus February 8-12.
Entitled the "Stanford Pan-Asian Music Festival," the
program will feature original pieces by contemporary Asian composers,
as well as examples of traditional Asian music. |
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| In addition to the musical
performances, the festival will include the screening of a film
on contemporary Western music in China, together with a talk
on the film by Academy Award winning producer and director Allan
Miller. |
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| Sri Lankan art
at Cantor |
Buddhist consecration
ceremony
to open major exhibition |
| Stanford's Cantor
Center for the Visual Arts will present a major exhibition of
Sri Lankan art, March 2 through June 12. The exhibition, entitled
"Guardian of the Flame: Art of Sri Lanka," will be
accompanied by a display of rare Sri Lankan palm leaf manuscripts
and manuscript covers. |
| A Buddhist consecration ceremony
to open the exhibition will be held at the center on Wednesday,
March 2. |
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| "Guardian of the Flame"
is organized by the Phoenix Art Museum and provides a 180-page
full color catalogue. The exhibition at Stanford will be the
only West Coast viewing. For more information, see the Cantor Center press release. |
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arc publications |
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New book on Chinese oracles |
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Strickmann work edited
by Bernard Faure |
| Chinese Poetry and Prophecy:
The Written Oracle in East Asia,
by the late Michel Strickmann, is the latest release in the Stanford
University Press ARC series. |
| The second posthumous work of the renowned
Daoist scholar to be edited for the series by Bernard Faure (Religious
Studies), the text examines the role of divination in Chinese
religion and culture. |
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