Music club set to give Shanghai a new beat By Chen Nan | China Daily | Updated: 2020-12-15 07:58 Share CLOSE Clarinetist Andreas Ottensamer and pianist Yuja Wang perform at a Yellow Lounge event in Shanghai in November 2018.[Photo provided to China Daily]
Venue ready to benefit from city s global cultural prestige, Chen Nan reports.
Marking its 20th anniversary, Yellow Lounge, a global classical music club initiative by Deutsche Grammophon, will launch a new permanent base in Shanghai.
On Dec 20, an opening concert will be staged at the Blackstone complex, an urban site redeveloped as a musical hub.
Renowned classical guitarist Yang Xuefei will open the concert along with Lu Yiwen, a virtuoso
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Composer Hao Weiya explains the motivation behind his work in Shanghai on Saturday. [Photo provided to China Daily]
Four new musical compositions to mark the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Communist Party of China next year held their debut rehearsals in Shanghai on Saturday.
The four works were created by musicians born in the 1950s, 60s, 70s and 80s, representing the different perspectives on communist belief from different generations.
Jia Daqun, 65, completed a concerto for orchestra titled Zhu Lang Xin Chao (A Heart Pursuing the Waves). The name of his music echoed a 1927 poem by Mao Zedong, one of the founders of the CPC, which goes: I pledge my wine to the surging torrent, the tide of my heart swells with the waves.