“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 ...

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 ...

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.

Butterfly Lovers Concerto Gang Chen, Composer Lan Shui, Conductor Singapore Symphony Orchestra Gil Shaham, Violin Concerto for Violin and Orchestra Gil Shaham, Violin Lan Shui, Conductor Singapore ...

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 ...

Zhang Runyin and Zhu Wancheng as two award-winning musicians from the conservatory performed key passages of Butterfly Lovers on violin and piano. [Photo provided to China Daily] As part of its ...

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 ...