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Pianist John Owings concert for the Crystal Valley Concert Series features works by Beethoven, Ravel and Chopin.

Several times during his career, John Owings has prepared and performed the complete cycle of 32 Beethoven piano sonatas. For his first concert engagement post-lockdown, Owings seized on precisely the right one for the occasion. The Piano Sonata No. 31 in A-flat major, Opus 110, is a musical depiction of Beethoven’s own health traumas and his return to vitality. Its restorative powers are a perfect fit for a zeitgeist that sees a society ravaged by COVID-19 start to thrive again after weat...

He will perform two-hour solo concerts without any intermission in each of the 15 Chinese cities including Lang’s hometown, Northeast China’s Shenyang, with help from Poly Theatre Management…. On Monday, China’s cultural authorities eased the anti-COVID19 restrictions in cultural venues like cinemas and theaters across the country, which no longer have to meet the requirements for limited capacity.  “As part of Lang Lang’s Bach: Goldberg Variations global tour, the concerts in Ch...