Avant-garde composer Tan Dun and the National Ballet's former chief conductor Bian Zushan once debated on television about the concepts of music. The heated debate showed Tan and Bian, representing ...

A group of youngsters in red silk Mandarin-collared shirts are plucking, beating or blowing into Asian musical instruments that generate delicately trembling and airy melodies. The young musicians ...

The notion of an orchestra, a large ensemble of musicians directed to play together, is a Western notion, essentially unknown in China until the middle of the past century. Since then, the Chinese ...

The China National Traditional Orchestra is fighting a battle familiar to anyone who performs classical music: getting young people to enjoy their art. And it’s often an uphill battle. Some of the ...

WQXR, which bills itself as New York’s classical music radio station, will once again host Classical Kids Fair from noon to 4 p.m. on Sunday, Nov. 9, at the Queens ...

As three performers dressed in traditional Chinese opera costumes perform a scene from Liyuan Opera, an 800-year-old branch of Chinese Opera, the sound of modern pop music instruments such as the ...

SINGAPORE – When maestro Yeh Tsung took over the reins of the Singapore Chinese Orchestra (SCO) in 2002, he had a clear vision of his goals for the young orchestra, inaugurated only five years earlier ...

When Seth Boustead — leader of a Chicago-based music ensemble — wanted in 2006 to commission via the internet a new composition from a Chinese composer working in China, he had trouble finding one.

The 2019 Beijing Modern Music Festival opens on May 19 at the National Centre for the Performing Arts with a series of modern Chinese compositions for symphony orchestra that celebrate the 70th ...