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What sounds sweeter and more personal than a violin? Many people would say the erhu, a Chinese string instrument dating to the mid-8th century that has been put to some very modern uses recently.

Allison Hernandez is modest and soft spoken, but when she picks up the erhu, she slips into another world. With a slight smile on her face and closed eyes, she moves with the music, as she draws her ...

Plucked, like the Chinese zither, or bowed, like the erhu, stringed instruments have been played for hundreds of years in China This is the sixth in a series of articles about classical Chinese ...

Entering the main office of the Anderson Center, a historic estate just outside Red Wing, it's not uncommon to hear music, since the property has long served as an artists community. But this month, ...

MURFREESBORO — Mei Han's journey to Murfreesboro comes through an international performing career and an academic opportunity she couldn't turn down. The job of founding director of the Chinese Center ...

The composer Gordon Lee, an ebullient character with shoulder-length hair and an eruptive laugh, is sitting in the small studio at his Cupertino home — crammed with saxophones, Chinese string ...

Tao Yuanming (365-427) — a paradigm of the recluse and cultural paragon of ancient China — famously played a stringless qin, declaring: "If one knows the inner significance of the qin, why make the ...

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