young and old, will leave the show thinking, “This is very fresh. This is very new. This conveys the message of modern Chinese artists.” The China National Traditional Orchestra is fighting a ...

This is the fifth in a series of articles about classical Chinese instruments and the traditional Chinese music orchestra ... which is more than 2,000 years old, drums were ceremonial music ...

Combining modern pop musical elements and centuries-old traditional music ... Musicians with the Central Chinese Orchestra have made many such attempts. Zhao Cong, head of the orchestra and ...

Among them was a 16-year-old boy working in the rice fields ... Now we have many Chinese members in the Philadelphia Orchestra. China is really a part of us," said Booth.

We look at China's earliest musical instruments, how Chinese instruments fall into eight categories, and the modern ...

Tarnopolsky is the president and chief executive of the Philadelphia Orchestra and the Kimmel Center ... weeks of concerts mingling American and Chinese musicians, master classes, chamber music ...

SHANGHAI — For the past two months, Li Chenxiao has spent an hour every day practicing the zhongruan, a traditional Chinese plucked string instrument, at a speed of over 200 beats per minute. On Aug.

The 18-year-old is the only non-Chinese member of Temasek Polytechnic’s Chinese orchestra and the only bamboo flute, or dizi, player in the current cohort. He is helped by his conductor ...

The 18-year-old is the only non-Chinese member of Temasek Polytechnic Chinese Orchestra in Singapore and the only bamboo flute, or dizi, player in the current cohort. He is helped by his conductor ...

Wu Wei plays a mean sheng. What’s a sheng, you ask? It’s a Chinese mouth organ with an ancestry that dates back three millennia. At first glance, it looks something like the severed bottom of ...

Tao Zhang of Allen plays the pipa with the Dallas Huayun Chinese Traditional Music Orchestra during Plano AsiaFest at Haggard Park on Saturday, May 4, 2019, in Plano, Texas. (Smiley N. Pool/The ...