Plucking new heart strings
By Chen Nan | China Daily | Updated: 2016-12-16 07:03
Pipa player Yang Jing is reinvigorating the ancient instrument with original compositions, international performances and genre fusions, Chen Nan reports.
Tang Dynasty (618-907) poet Bai Juyi described the sound of the pipa as "pearls landing on a jade plate".
Performer Yang Jing says that's but one of the sounds the 2,000-year-old, four-stringed plucked instrument can produce.
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