The first time when I heard the [Fritz] Kreisler 'Liebesleid,' I just [felt], 'Wow, that song is just right for the erhu.' The sadness, the sensitivity, the warmth, the romance: It fits my instrument.

This is the sixth in a series of articles about classical Chinese instruments and the traditional Chinese music orchestra, in which we explore how musicians play the eight different types of ...

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 ...

A memorial stands at the home of Min Huifen, the erhu master who died of a brain hemorrhage on Monday at Renji Hospital. [Photo/Xinhua] A memorial stood at the home of Min Huifen, the erhu master who ...

In the Oscar-nominated film “Up in the Air,” audiences watch the familiar routines of contemporary airline travel while hearing the unfamiliar sounds of an ancient Asian instrument, thanks to erhu ...

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 ...

Here’s an utterly virtuosic version of Rimsky-Korsakov’s Flight of the Bumblebee, on an instrument you’ve almost certainly never heard play it. The Erhu, sometimes known as the Chinese violin, only ...

The sound of the traditional Chinese musical instrument erhu is becoming better known globally thanks to the effort of one college student. Chen Yimiao, born in 2004, comes from a Beijing family ...

"Her erhu narrates universal tales, with its two strings painting scenes beyond words," a journalist based at the United Nations said after experiencing a concert by Chinese erhu virtuoso Ma Xiaohui.

This is the famous erhu solo "Two Springs Mirroring the Moon". It was written by noted composer and erhu musician Hua Yanjun, a blind street performer who is considered one of the most important ...

May 25 | 8:00 PM - 10:00 PM Add to Calendar 25-05-2024 20:00 25-05-2024 22:00 America/Toronto Yang Xue’s Bows & Strings’ Dance (Beijing, China) and the Vancouver Erhu Quartet, Sound of Dragon Festival ...