This is the sixth 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 Chinese guqin is a seven-stringed zither without bridges. It has a history of over 3,000 years and is a symbol of the Chinese musical tradition. More than 100 teachers and students from Russia, ...

A longhaired beauty, Zhao Jienan seems to match the image traditionally associated with a guzheng (Chinese zither) player. However, when she performs onstage, audiences are surprised by the modernity ...

To tai chi master Guo Huaisheng, music floats from a guqin (a plucked seven-string Chinese musical instrument of the zither family) like mist while melodies run from a piano like rainfall. "A great ...

Contrast. Balance. Yin and yang. That’s how Susan Cheng, founding member of the ensemble Music From China, describes Chinese music. But it’s just as apt a description of the two concerts they’ll ...

Entering the main office of the Anderson Center, a historic estate just outside Red Wing, it's not uncommon to hear music, since the property has long served as an artists community. But this month, ...

She has three names. Xiaodan Liang, 42, was born in China, where she spent the first 39 years of her life. She received her American name, Danielle Hernacki, after she came to the U.S. in December ...

The name sounds interesting enough -- even intriguing: The 12 Girls Band. And from China, at that. And when the curtain went up at UCLA’s Royce Hall on Thursday night for the ensemble’s debut Los ...

All throughout May, WTOP is celebrating Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month with stories about the people and places shaping the D.C. region. One of the oldest, most identifiable sounds ...

It may be the year of the snake, but David Boody students’ lunar New Year performance drew no hisses. Two hundred kids from the Avenue S intermediate school’s extracurricular programs celebrated the ...