World Music

Non-Western classical music

Michael Zwiebach - March 1, 2011

The Jewish Music Festival kicks off in Berkeley with the Ger Mandolin Ensemble, a mandolin orchestra, inspired by a pre-World War II group that was destroyed during the Nazi occupation of Poland.

Allan Ulrich - January 29, 2009
The Symphony’s annual family concerts on the occasion of the Lunar New Year are not only colorful celebrations of Chinese culture and music, they also present first-class talent. It was at one of these concerts that Yuja Wang, now a pianist superstar, made her San Franciso debut.
Heuwell Tircuit - December 29, 2008

Yo-Yo Ma’s and his Silk Road Project have come up with a new CD featuring a host of young performers supported by the Chicago Symphony. Titled Traditions and Transformations, the disc includes two standard works, Ernest Bloch’s Schelomo and Prokofiev rambunctious Scythian Suite, Op.