Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook The pipa is a Chinese lute, and its sound is surprisingly spry and agile, with sounds that hit and ...

Before she became the world’s most accomplished and innovative pipa player, Wu Man had a bright future in her native China on the four-string instrument, which dates back more than 2,000 years. A ...

Wu Man is a master of the Chinese pipa, a lute-like instrument with a 2,000-year history. She stopped by NPR to talk about her fresh twist on... Pipa Virtuoso Wu Man Brings Ancient Chinese Music To ...

One school of thought has it that classical music is facing tough times as it negotiates a perfect storm of changing social, cultural, educational, economic and digital forces. But Wu Man doesn’t ...

If the pipa - the pear-shaped lute with the distinctively percussive, banjo-like twang - has become increasingly well known outside the world of traditional Chinese music, much of the credit goes to ...

Wu Man has introduced the pipa to countless Western listeners through her collaborative efforts with Western composers and performers. More recently, she has turned much of her attention to the ...

In 1972, six years into China's turbulent Cultural Revolution, nine-year-old Wu Man’s father put a traditional four-stringed instrument known as a pipa in her hands and told her to learn. She quickly ...

The first time I saw Wu Man play the pipa, a four-stringed lute with an ancient Chinese lineage, time seemed to stop. I stood silently and slack-jawed, watching her left hand dart along the instrument ...

LIKE archeologists constructing a whole from fragments, ethnomusicologists who research ancient scores must translate extinct musical languages into contemporary Western notation. The traditional ...

Wu Man's musical journey has taken her from the Chinese city of Hangzhou (where she was born), to Beijing (where she studied), to San Diego (where she now lives). Her traveling companion on this ...