BEIJING - Holding two bamboo mallets, one in each hand, and alternately hitting the strings on a trapezoid-shaped wooden instrument, Liu Yuening is consumed by the reverberating notes. Liu, 54, a ...
The sounds of the yangqin, an instrument at the center of Chinese musical ensembles, resonated through Baird Hall on April 18 as multi-instrumentalist Helen Yee shared her expertise and knowledge of ...
The Chinese hammered dulcimer, or yangqin, has been around for hundreds of years, but no one has played it as radically as Mantawoman. Taking an instrument associated with classical Chinese works such ...
This unique event will bring together two-time Grammy winners Cathy Fink & Marcy Marxer with Chinese dulcimer virtuoso Chao Tian for a genre-blending musical event that unites Appalachian and Chinese ...