Her principal talent, to which she has devoted her life, is playing the pipa, a lutelike Chinese instrument more at home in Peking opera than Top-40 countdowns.
The pipa player is a genial fellow who entertained the Boston members backstage with Home on the Range ("I learned it for Kissinger's sixth visit").
Wu Man is a virtuosic pipa (Chinese lute) player who became close to Ma after he invited her to perform a work by Chinese composer Bright Sheng at a White House dinner for then .
’Song of a Pipa Player’ to be performed at Senior Center Michael Chan, a member of the The Iowa City/Johnson County Senior Center’s poetry group, Reading Aloud, will present his own English translation of ’Song of a Pipa Player’ by 8th century poet Bai Juyi at 3:30 p.m.
June 10, 2013 - The Iowa City Press-Citizen
Carlos Tevez in Brownsville Herald The guitar and the sitar are obviously related - even linguistically. The oud moves west from Persia to become the lute; it moves east to become the pipa. And a European hears an erhu and says it's purely Chinese, a Chinese violin, but in Chinese... Yo-Yo Ma http://www.google.com/url?q=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yo-Yo_Ma&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNErUW0-hneR-2ACdJoVDk8GFSKNwA International Herald Tribune http://www.google.com/url?q=http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/04/08/america/NA-GEN-US-Ma-Silk-Road.php&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNFAAAHNSS2Eh1RRCywuaU0WYrkfvw Apr 8, 2007
74726 100670 pipa I'm very happy for 'Pipa' because the goal opened up for him today. I hope he can keep it up," said Tevez, using the nickname Higuain inherited from his father Jorge, a former River Plate defender.
Gonzalo Higuain in New York Times I suggested he goes and answer the French call,Jorge HiguaÃn said. "But Pipa has other ideas in his head. I can't drag him there."