Bartok’s room – Istvan Peter B’RAcz – Hungary 1989

In 1989, I was studying piano at the Liszt Academy of Music in Budapest Hungary with Balázs Szokolay and Péter Nagy, and was preparing some auditions for Grad School. I was working on Bartok’s Piano Sonata (1926), and I was in the Bartokterem (Bartok’s room) which has a bust of Béla B staring right at […]

Familia – Jeanie Bukowski – Spain 2006

All those years ago now, I stood before this door, clutching your address and my suitcase. I had traveled nearly 5000 miles to arrive here. Alone for the first time in my life. To learn another language, to understand another culture. I was trembling. It was all I could do to ring your doorbell.   […]

Just the One – Daniel A Kelin, II – India 2019

I served as guest faculty for the National School of Drama, Theatre-in-Education wing, Tripura. Their first Fulbright-Nehru fellow.  During my fellowship, an accomplished actor (Vijay) visited to teach Voice and Speech in between stints on a national TV program. One evening, he presented a one man show, which he’d been performing for 25 years with […]

Eternal Visions, Contemporary Forms; My Study with an Historic Master of Newar Repousse – Maureen T. Drdak – Nepal 2011

I first visited Nepal in 2005 where I beheld the beautiful repousse temple toranas of the Kathmandu Valley. An ancient endangered art, the Newars of the Valley are universally considered the finest practitioners of repousse—the art of hammering sheet metal into three dimensional forms. When I first gazed upon the ancient fire-gilded copper imagery of […]