I hold the view that world music musicians are great when they take a regional music and expand it so that it becomes internationally known, even concert music. Ravi Shankar did that with Indian raga.

Wu Man will share how the pipa, a pear-shaped, four-stringed Chinese lute, serves as a bridge between cultures. Through music and storytelling, she explores how this ancient instrument has helped her ...

Chinese born and U.S. based Wu Man has taken the pipa (a traditional Chinese lute) and brought it to concert stages around the world as well as introducing it into Western pop and other music styles.

Tiffany Liu plucks the strings of her Chinese lute, called a pipa, as the water undulates back and forth along the rocks at the edge of Victoria Park in Charlottetown. Passersby interrupt their ...

Wu Man will play the pipa, a four-string Chinese lute, in a Jan. 31 New Orleans concert with the Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra. (Wu Man) New Orleans produced jazz, gumbo and other cultural mash ups ...

Musical perspectives on and about America constitute the theme of the upcoming The La Jolla Symphony & Chorus concert, 8 p.m. Feb. 6 and 1 p.m. Feb. 7 in UCSD’s Mandeville Auditorium. Director Steven ...

Pipa player Wu Man moved overseas to promote the Chinese instrument. Now, she hopes to do the same in her homeland. Chen Nan reports. Wu Man is regarded as the ambassador of the Chinese pipa to the ...

A group of William & Mary students had a unique picnic of sorts at the Confucius Institute on Monday. While enjoying pizza on paper plates and tea in delicate porcelain cups, they were treated to a ...

Wu Liangfeng, a popular local musician, singing a Pipa song while playing the Chinese lute, or pipa. It is Dong tradition to pass down these songs to younger generations by singing them to children in ...

Like to hear a python’s skin sing? You will in this show, which features a very expressive virtuoso of the erhu Guo Gan’s instrument looks and sounds unlike any western violin, but his upright, bowed ...

Composer, multi-instrumentalist, and singer, Min Xiao-Fen, brings her adventurous musical talents to provide live accompaniment to “The Goddess,” one of the greatest films from China’s silent film era ...

Young musicians plucked from the ranks of the Hong Kong Chinese Orchestra (HKCO) have created three adventurous concert programmes for the troupe’s abbreviated new season that starts in October. Pipa ...