Core Bites: Lauren Pelon to perform at BRCC – BlueRidgeNow.com|
Core Bites: Lauren Pelon to perform at BRCC
BlueRidgeNow.com … on lute, guitar, lyre, recorders, gemshorns, cornamuse, krummhorn, schreierpfeife, shawm, rackett, psalteries, pennywhistles, psalmodikon, concertina, ocarina, hurdy-gurdy, doucaine, Kiowa courting flute, synthesizers, electric wind instrument, … |
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Gig Alert: Huang Ruo – WNYC|
Gig Alert: Huang Ruo
WNYC Download Huang's “Written On The Wind” above, a piece that features Min singing and playing the pipa, a traditional Chinese lute-like string instrument. In the video below, listen to Ruo's graceful and contemplative composition “Without Words,” which … |
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They’ll Strum From Day Into Night – New York Times New York Times |
They'll Strum From Day Into Night
New York Times If there is one instrument with a built-in passport for crossing genres, it is the guitar. Central to folk music of all kinds, the backbone of the blues and, in its amplified form, both a supple solo voice in jazz and the lifeblood of rock, … |
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Wu Man to bring unique sound of Chinese pipa to Hop – The Dartmouth The Dartmouth |
Wu Man to bring unique sound of Chinese pipa to Hop
The Dartmouth The pipa is a four-stringed plucked instrument that originated in Central Asia and is often referred to as the “Chinese lute.” Migrating to China around 2000 years ago, the pipa steadily gained popularity for the next several centuries, especially as … |
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Lutes like they’re having fun – The Oxford Times|
Lutes like they're having fun
The Oxford Times “My lute was made in 1993 and it's a copy of an instrument from 1583 – it's insured for about £2000. A lot of the most popular lute songs were published at the end of the 16th century. They are the greatest hits for people who play the lute.” |
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A busy week for my concert diary – Today’s Zaman Today’s Zaman |
A busy week for my concert diary
Today’s Zaman With his 13-string lute, a mainstay instrument of Baroque music and a precursor to the oud and guitar, Pianca took us from the 1500s to the 1700s with the music of Girolamo Frescobaldi, Giuseppe Antonio Doni, Robert de Visée and Silvius Leopold Weiss … |
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Min Xao-Fen at Bohemian Caverns – Washington City Paper Washington City Paper |
Min Xao-Fen at Bohemian Caverns
Washington City Paper By Michael J. West • January 20, 2012 Most players of the pipa—a Chinese string instrument similar to the lute—would not consider theirs the ideal instrument for the music of Thelonious Monk or Miles Davis. But Min Xiao-Fen is not most pipa players. |
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Review: Concert 3 | Chamber Music International | St. Barnabas Presbyterian Church – TheaterJones Performing Arts News in North Texas TheaterJones Performing Arts News in North Texas |
Review: Concert 3 | Chamber Music International | St. Barnabas Presbyterian Church
TheaterJones Performing Arts News in North Texas The Say piece recreates the sounds of the saz, a Turkish instrument of the lute family, by having the pianist dampen the strings by placing one hand on the strings while the other plays the notes on the keyboard. "Impressive" continued to be the byword … |
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Graphic Designer: ‘It was like being in another world’ – The Epoch Times The Epoch Times |
Graphic Designer: 'It was like being in another world'
The Epoch Times The Shen Yun Performing Arts Orchestra performs all original scores to enhance the storytelling and by combining the ancient erhu (2 stringed-bowed instrument), pipa (Chinese lute), and dizi (bamboo flute) with traditional Western philharmonic … |
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Diwa de Leon bends the two strings of this traditional instrument to make new … – Inquirer.net Inquirer.net |
Diwa de Leon bends the two strings of this traditional instrument to make new …
Inquirer.net While these gave him pride and a sense of fulfillment, De Leon said one thing would give him deeper satisfaction: Pushing the hegalong—a two-stringed T'boli boat lute/guitar—into present-day consciousness, and making it relevant in modern music genres. |
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