NEW YORK, May 24 (Xinhua) -- New immigrants in the United States always grapple with the duality of cultures and identities, but few of them can express their feelings like anticipation, agony, pride ...

Kadri Gopalnath is a name to reckon with in the field of Carnatic instrumental music. For one, he is the one and only musician to mould the very orthodox Indian genre to a totally Western instrument — ...

From left to right: Chinese Pipa master Wu Yuxia plays on stage in Tianjin in 2010.[Photo by Cao Tong] Vladimir Ashkenazy conducts the Sydney Symphony Orchestra. [Photo provided to chinadaily.com.cn] ...

"Western research has focused so much on familiar orchestral instruments, but other musical cultures use instruments that, because of their shape and physics, are what we would call 'inharmonic.'" The ...