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.

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 ...

Joshua Bell has been an international violin soloist since he performed with the Philadelphia Orchestra and conductor Riccardo Muti at the age of 14. He signed his first recording contract four years ...

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 ...

Classic FM Album of the Week, 29 June 2015. The Butterfly Lovers Violin Concerto is one of the best-loved classical compositions in China, as well as being the one Chinese work that is probably most ...

Every year a student composition from 1959 is performed in countless competitions and concerts. But the "Butterfly Lovers" Violin Concerto by He Zhanhao and Chen Gang is not often heard in Australia.

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 ...

“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'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 ...