Shanghai Quartet set to play a string of classical hits By Chen Nan | China Daily | Updated: 2020-12-16 07:59 Share CLOSE (From left to right) Violinists Weigang Li, Angelo Xiang Yu, violist Honggang Li and cellist Nicholas Tzavar of Shanghai Quartet. [Photo provided to China Daily]
The Shanghai Quartet, which announced its new member Angelo Xiang Yu as its second violinist in November, will give a recital at the Tianjin Juilliard School on Wednesday.
Marking Ludwig van Beethoven s 250th birth anniversary this year, the quartet will perform three of the German composer s pieces written for string quartet:
String Quartet No 6 in B-flat Major, Op 18, No 6, Grosse Fuge Op 133 and
3 pm ET: London Philharmonic Orchestra presents
All the World’s a Stage. The LPO celebrates Brett Dean, their new Composer in Residence, with the UK premiere of
The Players. The scene is Elsinore, setting of Dean’s opera
Hamlet, with the solo role played by accordion player James Crabb. The concert begins with Bach’s
Brandenburg Concerto No. 5 and ends with Stravinsky’s mock-Baroque
Pulcinella. View here.
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Mark Steinberg, Marcy Rosen, and Jonathan Biss play Beethoven. Celebrate Beethoven’s 250th birthday as three chamber music luminaries play a program of early masterworks: Cello Sonata in G Minor, Op. 5 No. 2, Violin Sonata in A, Op. 30, No. 1, and Piano Trio in G, Op. 1, No. 2. View here. LIVE
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Vancouver Symphony Orchestra holiday show to share tunes, cheer
Concert will be livestreamed Saturday, Sunday By James Bash, for The Columbian
Published: December 10, 2020, 6:02am
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A great way to keep the COVID-19 pandemic from pitching you into a basement of doldrums is to hear the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra’s holiday concert, which will be livestreamed this weekend. The hometown orchestra under guest conductor Ken Selden has teamed up with jazz clarinetist Ken Peplowski and vocalist Clairdee to perform selections that include familiar Christmas tunes and jazzy holiday numbers.
Peplowski, who is based in New York City, has been the featured performer in a couple of galas for the orchestra. He has built a following in the Pacific Northwest because of his work with the Oregon Festival of American Music, the Siletz Bay Music Festival, and the jazz festival in Newport, Ore., where he is now the music director.