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No conversation about Chinese traditional music would be complete without the pipa, an ancient guitar-like instrument. One of the best known current practitioners of the pipa is Wu Man. Fred talks ...

Zhao Zeming, the concert's music director and a young composer, states that the guqin and the Grand Canal mirror two ...

With a slight inhale, 81-year-old Zhen Jinling brought the short, ridged horn up to his mouth. He pursed his lips and blew into his suona — the sound part birdcall, part trumpet fanfare. From a bench ...

Continuing our week of exploring connections between traditional music and classical music, we look at Chinese influences in Western classical music today. From the Shanghai Quartet's recording called ...

All throughout May, WTOP is celebrating Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month with stories about the people and places shaping the D.C. region. One of the oldest, most identifiable sounds ...

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Herbert Kuehne, of Monroe Township is a self-described "Bach, Mozart and Beethoven person," but after attending a standing room only performance at the Monroe Township Library of traditional Chinese ...

Haiqiong Deng performs “The Moon Over the Guan Mountain” & talks with us about music. Haiqiong Deng is an internationally recognized musician who focuses on traditional Chinese music. Her roots are in ...

The melodic tones of the guqin, the guzheng and the pipa will be heard as part of a festival celebrating traditional Chinese music. Cambridge Chinese Music and Culture Festival organiser Shi Yang ...

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.

To the accompaniment of traditional Chinese music ---- a mellow sound designed by its composer as a gentle brain massage ---- Dr. Farolyn McSweeney stuck needles with her bare right hand into Joseph ...