A group of youngsters in red silk Mandarin-collared shirts are plucking, beating or blowing into Asian musical instruments that generate delicately trembling and airy melodies. The young musicians ...

When I first heard that Irvine’s A Little Dynasty Chinese School (where my daughter is a student) has a traditional Chinese children’s orchestra, I was surprised. I grew up in San Jose, where there ...

On a quiet side street of Beacon Hill, the studio of Warren Chang — founder and director of the Seattle Chinese Orchestra — is filled with instruments unfamiliar to most Westerners. There’s a yangqin, ...

Members of the Great Wall Youth Orchestra play traditional Chinese instruments at the New Year concert in Shijiazhuang, north China's Hebei Province, Dec. 29, 2024. (Photo by Wang Zijie/Xinhua) At a ...

The notion of an orchestra, a large ensemble of musicians directed to play together, is a Western notion, essentially unknown in China until the middle of the past century. Since then, the Chinese ...

The first flutes excavated in China were made from bone. Today, ones made from bamboo are widely used in Chinese music and opera This is the seventh in a series of articles about classical Chinese ...

Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook The mental image that generally accompanies the word “orchestra” is that of a large mass of ...

The China Broadcasting Performing Arts Troupe wound up its three-city U.S. tour Wednesday with a grand Chinese folk music performance to an enthusiastic American audience in Seattle, Washington state.

Musicians from the China National Traditional Orchestra, including erhu player Niu Qianqian, will perform in Paris, France, and Vienna, Austria, during a tour from Friday to June 13. [Photo provided ...

Members of the Great Wall Youth Orchestra play traditional Chinese instruments at the New Year concert in Shijiazhuang, north China's Hebei Province, Dec. 29, 2024. [Photo by Wang Zijie/Xinhua] ...