Thousand Miles˙Talks About Music 2026/09/19 (Sat)

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Thousand Miles˙Talks About Music

HostMali Liu

Guest Esteban Urzelai, Basilio Astulez, Javier Busto, Janis Liepins, Urmar sisask, Vytautas Miškinis

2026/09/19 (Sat)

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20260919 有緣千里國際和平日特別節目: Echoes of the Borderline 3: Frontline Harmonies: Music at the Borders of Empire聲響的邊界與記憶

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Frontline Harmonies: Music at the Borders of Empire traces choral conductor and host Mali Liu's own journey from the stage of Spain's Tolosa Choral Contest to the frontlines of the Baltic and the Taiwan Strait. Through nine voices—Basque maestros Esteban Urzelai, Basilio Astulez, and Javier Busto; Baltic masters Jānis Liepiņš, Vytautas Miškinis, and Urmas Sisask; and Matsu's Tsui-Yun Lee, Yu-Feng Weng, and Ke-Wu Lin—the program uncovers a shared history of silenced voices: Franco's decades-long ban on the Basque language, the USSR's suppression of Baltic identity broken only by the Singing Revolution, and Matsu's martial-law era of blackout curfews and air-raid sirens. Each community, the program argues, turned its rehearsal room into a fortress of memory. Blending first-person narration with intimate interviews and choral performance, the episode asks: when empires mandate silence, how does a people sing their way back to dignity?

Playlist

1. Jose Juan Santesteban: Goizeko Izarra Morning Star 2. Jon Sáenz Rubio: Libera me 3. Imants Rmiņš : Pūt, vējiņi 4. Vytautas Miškinis : Neišeik, saulala 5. 盧亮輝: 海上桃花島

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