Hong Kong Mississippi Review. A Chinese Boy Wants to Play The Blues by Jonathan Mandell

At the very end of Wesley Du's solo play about a Chinese-American boy named Pinky who wants to be a blues guitarist, Pinky reads aloud a letter from Cannonball, the irascible, bigoted Black blues musician who was grudgingly his mentor: "As Beethoven said, 'To play a wrong note is insignificant; to play without passion is...

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