The erhu has only two strings but just listen to what those two strings can do - from playing the earliest classic, "The Sound of Agony," to imitating perfectly the voices of Peking Opera singers or ...

Born and raised in Shanghai, Jiang began learning the instrument with her uncle Tang Chungui, an erhu teacher, when she was ...

Each week, Daily Bruin A&E will explore the instruments of the World Musical Instrument Collection and their performers that all contribute to the musical landscape of the UCLA Herb Alpert School of ...

May 25 | 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM Add to Calendar 25-05-2024 12:00 25-05-2024 13:00 America/Toronto Yang Xue: The Arts of Erhu Music, Sound of Dragon Festival The Sound of Dragon Festival offers a free ...

The Erhu is a traditional Chinese instrument and member of the Huqin family whose other membersothe Gao hu and Chunguoapproximate the Western string section. The Erhu is the most popular of the Huqin ...

Talent is a ticket. Some people use it to nail auditions, others to get into a top school. Jia Pengfang used his to see the world, and his particular talent was the erhu. Born in 1958 in China's ...

“Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon’s” theme music is typified by the sounds of a melancholy stringed instrument. Without hearing it before, you might think the music was a special type of ...

“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 ...

There was a time when the erhu was perceived as an instrument for the poor. Wang Guotong says he remembers it well. 'In the 1920s, Hong Kong people looked down on national music - they worshipped ...

Performing recently in a Shanghai park, a musician gingerly glides his bow across the strings of his erhu before tightening them to bring the instrument back into tune. Soon he is immersed in the ...

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 ...