Balancing the morin khuur base between his knees, Las Vegas-based instrumentalist Hong Wang uses his right hand to slide a bow smoothly across the instrument. The fingers on Wang’s left hand glide ...

The Chinese hammered dulcimer, or yangqin, has been around for hundreds of years, but no one has played it as radically as Mantawoman. Taking an instrument associated with classical Chinese works such ...

The 2024 Beijing Traditional Music Festival taking place from Oct 26 to Sunday in Beijing.[Photo provided to chinadaily.com.cn] The 2024 Beijing Traditional Music Festival — Chinese Music (National ...

“There is so much beautiful folk music in China,” says Suli Xue, founder of Pacific Harmony String Quartet, which performs in Benaroya Hall Saturday. “But I don’t play those instruments.” The ...

This is the eighth ina 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 ...

Students perform a collective flute piece during an interlude at Yinshan ethnic primary school in Yuping Dong Autonomous County, southwest China's Guizhou Province, July 4, 2024. (Photo by Hu ...

The Red & Black is a 501c3 nonprofit. Please consider a one-time gift or become a monthly supporter. Cancel anytime. The University of Georgia has an international student population of 2,600 with a ...

A Chinese musician put a new spin on Irish music by playing some of Ireland's favorite trad songs on traditional Chinese instruments. Jaylin Chu always had an interest in Irish music but found it very ...

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 ...