What makes Chinese music Chinese? After a century of revolution and change, how do contemporary Chinese composers understand and reflect their heritage, even as they try to connect with global ...

An Australian local orchestra presented a symphonic concert containing Chinese classical music on Friday night at Sydney's major landmark Town Hall. Beginning with the "Spring Festival Overture", a ...

CHICAGO — The pandemic made a trip to China to cover the Olympic host country difficult. So we pivoted and found the Spirit of China stories right here at home in the United States. We traveled to ...

[1.] Ancient Chinese musical instruments -- The dawn of musical culture : China's oldest musical instruments -- The wonder of bronze : a tour of Shang and Zhou musical instruments -- Palace pageantry ...

This is the ninth 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 ...

The young musicians played classical Chinese instruments and announced their program in English, as the aging audience listened politely to explanations translated into Chinese. A concert Sunday by ...

Composer Bright Sheng has won MacArthur and Guggenheim Fellowships. Two decades ago, Chamber Music Northwest was looking for a new chamber opera. David Shifrin, the nonprofit's artistic director and a ...

Every Wednesday morning, vote for the piece you want to hear at noon. Part of China in New York. WQXR's China in New York festival explores how Chinese artists are influencing the world of classical ...

SINGAPORE -- Commonly known as wayang here, Chinese opera has for several decades played a prominent role in the local community. Brought here by Chinese immigrants, it has for nearly a thousand years ...

Photo taken on May 16, 2019 shows Chinese musical instrument Xiao at a studio in Cangzhou, north China's Hebei Province. Xiao is a vertical end-blown flute which is generally made of bamboo. It has ...

In 2010, composer Zhou Long was commissioned by the Beijing Music Festival and Boston Opera House to write Madame White Snake, an opera based on a famous Chinese folk tale that earned him the Pulitzer ...