S.P. Somtow Firebird Book Award Winner Author Interview

24/10/2024 45 min
S.P. Somtow Firebird Book Award Winner Author Interview

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  Born in Bangkok, Somtow grew up in Europe and was educated at Eton and Cambridge. His first career was in music and in the 1970s he acquired a reputation as a revolutionary composer, the first to combine Thai and Western instruments in radical new sonorities. Conditions in the arts in the region at the...

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