AMPERS
Minnesota's Community Radio Stations
1994 – On Gao Hong’s first tour of America, a radio listener, hearing of her concert, wondered how this Chinese musician could play a peapod? Hong played the pipa, not peapod, and decided then to move to Minnesota and make it her mission to introduce Americans to the Chinese instrument. Here’s Britt Aamodt. [Read Transcript...]
What is known as the Asian Holocaust of World War II, is a far-reaching tale of tragedy that affected Asian cultures all around the world. Producer Daniel Zamzow tells us about a musical expression of this era called Hun Qiao, or Bridge of Souls, which was presented at St. Paul’s Ordway Theater in 2001. [Read Transcript...]
Cy Thao wanted to tell the story of the Hmong people. Britt Aamodt finds out that he did it not with words but with paint and canvas. [Read Transcript...]
