Orphaned at age 14 in Cambodia, Bun Loeung was forced to perform as a musician full time simply to survive. During a career that spanned continents, Loeung played every venue imaginable, from Asian ...
In 1921, the Hungarian composer and ethnomusicologist Béla Bartók stated that “The ancient peasant music of each people is disappearing day by day, submerged beneath the waves of new cultures, so that ...
Four decades after the Cambodian genocide decimated traditional art forms in the Southeast Asian country, a nonprofit organization is working with an award-winning composer to engage new musicians in ...