There was a time when the erhu was perceived as an instrument for the poor. Wang Guotong says he remembers it well. 'In the 1920s, Hong Kong people looked down on national music - they worshipped ...

What do you do with a hyperactive 7-year-old boy? Signing him up for lessons on an ancient Chinese musical instrument probably isn't the first thing to come to mind. Benjamin Lee, 16, of Byron, will ...

When Stephanie Ow was one month old, her father took her to visit his elder sister and her husband. The infant bawled lustily at the couple's Sengkang flat but quietened and gurgled whenever her ...

It took Ms Stephanie Ow more than five months to memorise the two musical pieces she performed yesterday in a concert. All but blind since five, the 19-year-old cannot read music scores, so she ...