You're hearing Min Xiao-Fen, one of the world's greatest virtuosos, playing the pipa. It's a pear-shaped, guitar-like instrument from China with a history that goes back thousands of years. Min's ...
SUFFERING AND EXPRESSION: Nearly 90 years after its premiere, a classic from the golden age of Chinese cinema receives a new soundtrack. World-famous pipa soloist Min Xiao-Fen presents “White Lotus,” ...
Photo taken on May 16, 2019 shows Chinese musical instrument Xiao at a studio in Cangzhou, north China's Hebei Province. Xiao is a vertical end-blown flute which is generally made of bamboo. It has ...
Min Xiao-Fen plucked and strummed a pipa, the four-stringed Chinese instrument she has played since childhood, at Flushing Town Hall one recent Sunday. Together with a string quartet and then solo, ...
Traditional Chinese musical instruments, such as the xun (Chinese vessel flute), dizi (Chinese transverse flute), xiao (Chinese vertical end-blown flute), and guqin (Chinese zither), were highlighted ...
Ancient Chinese music performed by husband-and-wife duo Wang Jian-xin and Li Feng-yun on the historic instruments qin and xiao will be featured at Brigham Young University Friday, Sept. 18, in the ...