Continuing our week of exploring connections between traditional music and classical music, we look at Chinese influences in Western classical music today. From the Shanghai Quartet's recording called ...

Liu, however, promoted the "hillbilly" music to an international audience, thanks to Tan and his team, who recomposed the ...

SINGAPORE -- Commonly known as wayang here, Chinese opera has for several decades played a prominent role in the local community. Brought here by Chinese immigrants, it has for nearly a thousand years ...

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 ...

Traditional Chinese orchestras, comprised of percussion instruments with a few stringed instruments, are centuries old. In 1879, the first Western-styled orchestra appeared in China, with Chinese ...

Haiqiong Deng performs “The Moon Over the Guan Mountain” & talks with us about music. Haiqiong Deng is an internationally recognized musician who focuses on traditional Chinese music. Her roots are in ...

One of the oldest, most identifiable sounds of traditional Chinese music is enjoying a surge in popularity — internationally, and in the D.C. region. “This instrument, in Chinese, they call ‘guzheng.’ ...

On Tuesday, the day of the Lantern Festival, the China National Traditional Orchestra (CNTO) announced the launch of a landmark initiative: Its first-ever formal concert season This move fills a ...

Master of morin khuur Chi Bulag, 83, will lead his band, Wild Horse, at the "Spring of Chinese Music" festival in Beijing in April. CHINA DAILY Beijing is set to reflect the sounds of China's rich ...

Herbert Kuehne, of Monroe Township is a self-described "Bach, Mozart and Beethoven person," but after attending a standing room only performance at the Monroe Township Library of traditional Chinese ...