Croatian cellist Ana Rucner on the Bund in Shanghai in October 2023. [Photo provided to China Daily] When Croatian cellist Ana Rucner first came to China in 2010, she instinctively believed that ...

Croatian cellist Ana Rucner has made a number of visits to China. She recently performed at the 2025 Hongqiao Grassland Music Festival, held on Oct 26. CHINA DAILY When Croatian cellist Ana Rucner ...

John Williams has written so many of the movie scores that have gotten stuck in your head over the years... (SOUNDBITE OF JOHN WILLIAMS' "STAR WARS (MAIN TITLE)") KELLY: ...Like the theme to "Star ...

A Himalayan mountain peak and the symphony hall stage have this in common: If you want to plant your flag in either of these realms, it's good to have some help. Climbers employ Sherpas, Tibetan ...

Galway Kinnell was a Pulitzer Prize–winning poet, an anti-war activist, a member of the civil-rights group Congress of Racial Equality, and a devoted husband and father. He was not a man of faith. And ...

Mstislav Rostropovich, the ebullient master cellist who fought for the rights of Soviet-era dissidents and later triumphantly played Bach suites below the crumbling Berlin Wall, died Friday. He was 80 ...