Performing Arts

Though Angela Lin is a dancer, she finds the process of mastering her craft similar to the process of reading and understanding classical Chinese poems. “You need to dig deep ...

Where there is a piano, there is hope. There is hope because where there is a piano, someone ...

The gravity-defying leaps and flips of classical Chinese dance have certainly attracted more than one young dancer to ...

If nothing else, younger readers will at least know the distinctive, slightly scratchy voice of the great Burl ...

One of the great apple-pie traditions of American music, right up there with a marching band or Dixieland ...

Introduction One of the key goals of communism is to destroy traditional culture. When the Chinese Communist Party ...

This is Victor Li's fifth time entering the NTD TV International Classical Chinese Dance Competition. For most aspiring classical ...

The jurists of the New Tang Dynasty International Piano Competition are classical musicians as well. They are pianists ...

A young student, having just met the elder Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, made a remark suggesting that composers wrote ...

The first time Michael Hu saw Shen Yun Performing Arts, he was filled with excitement and struck with ...

Ludwig von Beethoven is inarguably one of the greatest composers Western civilization has ever produced. The staying power ...

They say authors should write about what they know. If anyone knew what it means to be a ...

Sitting calmly at the keyboard he moves but slightly, yet his tone ranges from the most delicate to ...

In 1716, poet Alexander Pope received a letter from writer Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, who had just seen ...

Two extremes predominate in writing about the great composers: a tendency to romanticize and mythologize them into inspired ...

“Dying is easy.  Comedy is hard.” These lines, attributed to actor Edmund Gwenn (Santa in the original “Miracle ...

Opera director Sir Graham Vick has died following “complications arising from COVID-19,” the Birmingham Opera Company has announced. ...

Zhao Jiheng's life turned upside down when he was just 8 years old. "One day, I came home, ...

Composer George M. Cohan bragged in a song that he was “born on the Fourth of July,” though ...

While some of the larger theaters in Chicago stage musicals as spectacular extravaganzas in mammoth auditoriums, Porchlight Music ...

In order to see some of the best art of Western civilization, you have to look up. On ...

I live in the greater Nashville, Tennessee, area with a population of around 1.3 million, and home to ...

There's little that scares the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) more than the growing popularity of traditional culture—embodied in ...

“You’ve got to be taught to be afraid/ Of people whose eyes are oddly made/ And people whose ...

Dayna Shereck arrived on Nashville’s music scene a decade ago, hopeful like any other musician that she’d carve ...

Today many think of Broadway musicals as esoteric or effete, but from the 1920s through the 1960s, they ...

Johannes Brahms might have been a genius, but he was still a man. He, like the rest of ...