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Music that moves mountains Share CLOSE Conductor and composer Tang Qingshi and the Sichuan Liangshan Mountain Symphony Orchestra perform at the National Center for the Performing Arts in Beijing on May 3. Tang has devoted the past eight years to popularizing classical music among audiences of Daliangshan area, a mountainous area in Liangshan Yi autonomous prefecture, Xichang, Southwest China s Sichuan province.[Photo provided to China Daily]
Orchestra festival highlights determination of rural ensemble to popularize classical works, Chen Nan reports.
The National Center for the Performing Arts staged its annual China Orchestra Festival from April 8 to May 7, presenting 21 concerts, featuring 22 symphony orchestras from 14 provinces in the country.
Tang-era riches Share CLOSE The Xi an Symphony Orchestra and its chorus will stage Chang an in Beijing on Saturday and Sunday.[Photo provided to China Daily]
A symphony concert combines the music and poetry of a former capital city, Chen Nan reports.
Chang an, a symphony concert themed on Tang Dynasty (618-907) poetry, premiered in Xi an, capital of Shaanxi province, on Nov 14.
The audience enjoyed a combination of classical music, traditional operas and
guqin (a zither-like seven-stringed traditional musical instrument) and Tang-era poems recited by veteran actors, including Pu Cunxin and Zhang Guoli.
The concert will be staged by the Xi an Symphony Orchestra and Xi an Symphony Orchestra Chorus at Beijing s National Center for the Performing Arts on Saturday and Sunday, as part of the ongoing China Orchestra Festival organized annually by the NCPA.
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Notes from the past Share CLOSE At 92, Zheng Xiaoying is China s first female orchestral conductor following the founding of People s Republic of China in 1949.[Photo provided to China Daily]
Accomplished conductor Zheng Xiaoying brings a composition about the history and lives of the Hakka people to the nation s capital, Chen Nan reports.
Despite a lifetime of achievement, most notably, perhaps, being the country s first female orchestral conductor following the founding of the People s Republic of China in 1949, Zheng Xiaoying, at the age of 92, still feels that she has some unfinished business.
She simply has a desire to introduce
The Echoes of Hakka s Earth Buildings, an original Chinese music piece composed by Liu Yuan about the Hakka people s history and lives, to as many people as possible.