The recent wave of Omicron infections in China has caused numerous deaths, many of whom were renowned artists, actors, opera singers, film directors, and writers and had ties to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). Actor Who Played Mao Zedong Dies Actor Zhang Mu, 92, who played Mao Zedong in many CCP films, died in Beijing…

Illia Razumeiko and Roman Grygoriv, two Ukrainian composers evacuating from Kyiv to western Ukraine, shared with The Epoch Times’ sister media NTD how they were affected by the war. Instead of playing musical instruments, they had to learn how to use different types of weapons. Grygoriv said: “I load machine guns. I train how to…

Thirteen hundred years have passed since the birth of Western Europe’s great musical tradition. Gregorian chant, first heard in the eighth century, is mother to a miraculous offspring including motets, cantatas, sonatas, operas, concertos, and symphonies, but perhaps most miraculous, the most unlikely of all her children, is the 19th-century German “Lied,” translated literally, “song.”…