Talent is a ticket. Some people use it to nail auditions, others to get into a top school. Jia Pengfang used his to see the world, and his particular talent was the erhu. Born in 1958 in China's ...

art school's strict teaching of fundamentals brings ancient music to life It is a common thing among Chinese parents these days to sending their children for piano or violin lessons. In Jiangyin city, ...

Photo taken on May 13, 2019 shows the bow and the strings of an Erhu in Lanzhou, northwest China's Gansu Province. Erhu, sometimes known as the Chinese violin or Chinese two-stringed fiddle, is a ...

The "Butterfly Lover's Concerto" is such an evocative title, it almost doesn't matter what the music is about. A Chinese folk tale was the inspiration for composer Chen Gang, in this concerto for the ...

Inside a small workshop packed with cupboards and a carpenter’s bench, 76-year-old Tong Man-hak carefully measures pieces of wood and places them precisely before using an electric saw to cut them.

The First Lady of Korea (L) Kim Jeong-suk, tries to play an erhu made by Wuxi craftsmen on Dec 13. [Photo/VCG] The First Lady of Korea, Kim Jeong-suk, tried her hand at playing a Wuxi-made erhu in ...

: Alabama Symphony Orchestra. Symphony 7: Crouching Tiger Concerto. virtuoso exemplifies the change, cultural turmoil and hardships of daily life in his native land during the last half century.

CHINA:CHINA'S SCHOOLS could soon resonate to high-pitched arias, the crash of cymbals and strains of the traditional erhu two-stringed violin after the education ministry launched a pilot programme to ...

"I hope to organize my concert in the near future, so I can help more people learn about Chinese folk music." Zheng Xiaohui, a postgraduate student in Milan, Italy, shared that wish during an ...

Duong Minh Cuong makes traditional musical instruments, which are becoming increasingly rare since most others make guitars and mandolins instead. Dao Xa in Dong Lo Commune, Hanoi’s Ung Hoa District, ...