This is the sixth in a series of articles about classical Chinese instruments and the traditional Chinese music orchestra, in which we explore how musicians play the eight different types of ...
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The first time when I heard the [Fritz] Kreisler 'Liebesleid,' I just [felt], 'Wow, that song is just right for the erhu.' The sadness, the sensitivity, the warmth, the romance: It fits my instrument.
The composer Gordon Lee, an ebullient character with shoulder-length hair and an eruptive laugh, is sitting in the small studio at his Cupertino home — crammed with saxophones, Chinese string ...
“There is so much beautiful folk music in China,” says Suli Xue, founder of Pacific Harmony String Quartet, which performs in Benaroya Hall Saturday. “But I don’t play those instruments.” The ...
MURFREESBORO — Mei Han's journey to Murfreesboro comes through an international performing career and an academic opportunity she couldn't turn down. The job of founding director of the Chinese Center ...
Feng Mantian and his band plan a tour to promote his brand of Chinese music, Chen Nan reports. In the underground parking lot of a shopping mall near Beijing's central business district is a room with ...
In a recent speech to the students of the University of International Business and Economics in Beijing, she said that she had burst into tears while singing songs based on such poems. As advocates of ...
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