Composer Bright Sheng has won MacArthur and Guggenheim Fellowships. Two decades ago, Chamber Music Northwest was looking for a new chamber opera. David Shifrin, the nonprofit's artistic director and a ...

Wu Wei plays a mean sheng. What’s a sheng, you ask? It’s a Chinese mouth organ with an ancestry that dates back three millennia. At first glance, it looks something like the severed bottom of a ...

Chinese sheng player Wu Tong and Japanese sho player Mayumi Miyata perform in Beijing on March 29. [Photo provided to chinadaily.com.cn] On March 29, Chinese sheng player Wu Tong shared the stage with ...

On March 19, Asia Society presents Wu Tong: Song of the Sheng, part of the Asia Society Performing Arts program and the Asia Society’s Center on US-China Relations’ ongoing “US-China Forum on the Arts ...

Bright Sheng, a native of Shanghai, has lived in the United States since 1982, studied composition with Leonard Bernstein and writes music in which the traditions of East and West form intriguing, ...

Look what Tastefully Offensive found that Gizmodo found that we found: a girl playing the Super Mario Bros. theme on a sheng, “a Chinese instrument invented thousands of years ago.” What’s so neat ...

Westerners in the 59th Grammy Awards audience wowed songstress Adele's five-trophy sweep and basked in Beyonce's epic performance of a five-song medley. Chinese music lovers, meanwhile, delighted in ...

We’re assuming that when the musical instrument known as the sheng was invented in China thousands of years ago, no one knew that it would one day be used to play a magically spot-on version of the ...

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