Bordering nations often share a common food or musical heritage that develops as a process of mutual influences. Mongolia, with its rich and distinctive musical traditions, is bordered by Russia in ...

The Smithsonian Folklife Festival is an experience of the senses, an invitation to see, taste, and smell. But for me, more than anything else, the Festival is an auditory experience, with its ...

If anything was lost in translation Saturday, it wasn”t the dulcet tones of Mei Xuan”s erhu. “Its sounds can express all kinds of emotions,” said Xuan of the ancient two-string Chinese instrument she ...

: Alabama Symphony Orchestra. Symphony 7: Crouching Tiger Concerto. virtuoso exemplifies the change, cultural turmoil and hardships of daily life in his native land during the last half century.

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 ...

Nashville-based composer and guitarist Bryan Clark was surprised when he became the first Western artist inducted into the Chinese Cultural Heritage Guild. "It seemed like the irony of ironies," Clark ...