Classical, jazz, latin, modern percussion, bluegrass…it’s all on display June 7 and 8 at the Taste For the Arts Festival in downtown Hermann, Missouri. The Festival will feature nine free concerts from a wide variety of genres and an outdoor art exhibit. Dot Schowe, director of public relations at East Central College, discusses the event.

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Violinist Gil Shaham recently released a new recording of "The Butterfly Lovers Violin Concerto" on Canary Classics.

The Butterfly Lovers is a Chinese legend dating back to the Tang Dynasty. It is the tale of two lovers and is sometimes considered to be the Chinese equivalent of Romeo and Juliet.

Like Romeo and Juliet, The Butterfly Lovers was also set to music. “The Butterfly Lovers’ Violin Concerto” was composed in the late 1950s by Chinese composers He Zhanhao and Chen Gang. The composition was suppressed during Mao’s Cultural Revolution of the 1960s because the piece is heavily influenced by the Western music tradition. It did not gain popularity until the 1970s, and now it is one of the most beloved pieces of classical music in China.

Gil Shaham spoke to Southeast Missouri State University's Brandon Christensen.

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