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 ...

“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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Every year a student composition from 1959 is performed in countless competitions and concerts. But the "Butterfly Lovers" Violin Concerto by He Zhanhao and Chen Gang is not often heard in Australia.

Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. The Long March Symphony by the legendary Chinese composer Ding Shande is one of ...

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 ...