Music

Composition Colloquium: Yao Chen

The music of YAO Chen strikes audiences with its innovative ways of bringing the traditions of Chinese and Western music and its poetic telling o

Performance: Shanghai Quartet

The Smithsonian's Museums of Asian Art, Freer/Sackler, present the Shanghai Quartet, playing Schubert's Quartetsatz; Bartók's Quartet no. 4; Beethoven's Quartet op. 132; and new arrangements of Chinese folksongs by Yi-Wen Jiang.

Chinese Opera Film Series - Double Feature: Romance of the Western Chamber and Two Stars in the Milky Way with Live Accompaniment by Donald Sosin

The University of Chicago Smart Museum of Art, Film Studies Center, Department of Cinema and Media Studies presents this double feature with live accompaniment of Chinese Opera.

ChinaFile Presents: China's Economic Rise, Through the Eyes of Financial Times Correspondents

Asia Society presents a discussion of China's financial rise through the eyes of Financial Times correspondents.

East Meets West XII

Dance of Asian America and Mitsi Dancing School present dances that unite some of the best from the east and the west.

The UCLA Asia Institute: Asia in LA 2011

The third annual Asia in LA day showcases the many sounds of Asian music and considers what we can learn about Asia by listening to its melodies more closely.

Michael Tilson Thomas at 70: The London Symphony Orchestra with Yuja Wang

Acclaimed conductor Michael Tilson Thomas returns to his hometown of Los Angeles for an unforgettable evening featuring the music of George Gershwin alongside Thomas's original compositions. Powerhouse pianist Yuja Wang will add sparks to an already electric concert.

Global Baroque: Four Nations Ensemble

Soprano Rosa Lamoreaux joins this leading baroque ensemble to explore little-known Western classical music from eighteenth-century China and the Americas.

Performing Asia: Drift

Asia Society hosts a performance by Frame Dance that represents Chinese cultural forms

Film Screening: The Silk Road of Pop

Cornell University presents a screening of a movie following the live of a young Uyghur woman in China looking for life's answers through music

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