A still shot of Wu Tong, a young sheng performer. [Photo provided to chinadaily.com.cn] "After playing sheng (a reed pipe wind instrument) for almost thirty-eight years, I came to realize that I have ...

A man (R) tries traditional Chinese musical instrument sheng during the "Getting to Know Chinese Folk Musical Instruments" event at the Chinatown Storytelling Centre in Vancouver, British Columbia, ...

It's fair to say that whoever invented the sheng, an ancient Chinese wind instrument, had no concept of 8-bit Italian plumbers. The golden era of the NES would come a good, oh, 3,000 years in the ...

A low, sonorous tone ripples from the back of the concert hall, a deep, rolling hum from someplace out of time, somewhere primordial. As the audience turns their heads towards the source, the towering ...

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 ...

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, ...

Wu also emphasized the possibility of crossover when he retold his meditation on sheng and his music. He believed that sheng should not be confined to Chinese traditional music, but can be performed ...