Music spans continents and crosses centuries, but the stories it tells, and the emotions it creates, are eternal and universal. No music-lover in Hong Kong will need any introduction to the Butterfly ...

“Where words fail, music speaks,” said Danish author Hans Christian Andersen. New Philharmonic, the only professional orchestra based in DuPage County, presents concerts featuring works tied together ...

It has been 60 years since China's well-known Butterfly Lovers' Violin Concerto debuted in Shanghai. Now a new musical inspired by the romantic Chinese legend, True Romance: Butterfly Lovers, will be ...

He Zhanhao was a first-year student at the Shanghai Conservatory of Music when was ordered to write a concerto. The then 24-year-old did so with great reluctance, feeling unqualified for the task.

PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) -- The Lunar New Year is a 15-day festival in China and other Asian countries. "There's just a lot of momentum and joy and celebration," says Executive Director Ryan Fleur. To ...

Joshua Bell has been an international violin soloist since he performed with the Philadelphia Orchestra and conductor Riccardo Muti at the age of 14. He signed his first recording contract four years ...

GRAMMY® Award-winning violinist Joshua Bell's forthcoming recording Butterfly Lovers features one of the most renowned works in the Chinese classical violin repertoire, the Butterfly Lovers Violin ...

Sherry Tse, a violin prodigy from Hong Kong, China, performed the Butterfly Lovers' Violin Concerto with the Bulgarian Sofia Philharmonic Orchestra at the Royal Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, the ...

It's probably the best-known piece of Chinese classical music from the 20th century - and it has long been popular in Chinese restaurants around the world. The Butterfly Lovers Violin Concerto was ...

The Butterfly Lovers' Violin Concerto was written by two Chinese composers, Chen Gang and He Zhanhao, in 1959. In honor of Chinese New Year – which begins 1/31 – Houston Public Media's Catherine Lu ...