“Music produces a kind of pleasure which human nature cannot do without.” - Confucius It is said that Confucius was a talented and serious musician, and that may account in part for his appreciation ...

The Dunhuang Cup Chinese Erhu Performance Competition ended on Aug 12. Launched in May, the competition attracted over 2,000 participants from around the world. Around 70 Chinese musicians from music ...

For those with a taste for exotic instrumental collaborations, the new CD “Across the Sea” (Keala Records) offers an intriguing combination of Chinese erhu player Tsun-Hui Hung, with two Na Hoku ...

Oct. 22 (UPI) --A Chinese county achieved a Guinness World Record when it assembled 2,024 erhu players into a single ensemble. Raoyang County, in Hebei Province, gathered 2,024 people to play the ...

In the Oscar-nominated film “Up in the Air,” audiences watch the familiar routines of contemporary airline travel while hearing the unfamiliar sounds of an ancient Asian instrument, thanks to erhu ...

: 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.

An unusual blending of Hawaiian slack key guitar and steel guitar with the Chinese erhu led the “Across the Sea” trio of Jeff Peterson, Greg Sardinha and Tsun-Hui Hung to a 2018 Hoku Award for ...

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 ...

Well, you are only about a millennium behind the times. But never fear. Opportunities to hear this ancient Chinese two-stringed instrument known for it’s plaintive humanlike tone are on the upswing. A ...

Erhu (a two-stringed fiddle) player Li Ting embarked on a trip to Lima, capital of Peru, in September. After a flight of around 30 hours, she arrived at her destination: the Colegio Peruano Chino Juan ...

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, ...

Gu Yue, a well-known company in Wuxi that produces erhu, is home to dozens of middle-aged artisans who painstakingly assemble each erhu by hand. [Photo by Alywin Chew/China Daily] Wuxi's most famous ...