Fine-tuned festival
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Fine-tuned festival
By Xiao Changyan (China Daily)
Updated: 2007-09-21 08:06
The Beijing International Music Festival will celebrate its 10th
anniversary this week with a grand gala of classical music performed by
world-renowned artists for more than a month.
This year's festival will feature 26 performances of orchestral,
operatic, chamber and jazz music from September 21 to October 26.
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Foreign artists such as Mischa Maisky, Daniel Barenboim and Chistoph
Eschenbach, as well as their Chinese counterparts Lang Lang, Wang Jian
and Tan Dun, are scheduled to grace the capital's stages during this
time. The esteemed Bamberg Symphony Orchestra, Orchestre de Paris,
Singapore Symphony Orchestra and the China Philharmonic will also perform.
China Concept has pioneered new territory in making this the biggest bash
yet. Accordingly, six concerts will highlight works by Chinese composers,
Chinese classical musicians and Chinese poets. A concert featuring works
by composer Guo Wenjing will run on September 23, and two concerts that
would feature the recitation of classic ci poems from the Song Dynasty
(960-1279) against the backdrop of orchestral accompaniment would run
from September 25-26.
Other highlights include a new Peking Opera and Guo Wenjing's new classic
opera Poet Li Bai.
Beijing Music Festival art director Yu Long says that Lang Lang, China's
most-renowned pianist, will play nine concertos during the festival as a
special tribute to the 10th anniversary.
To make this year even more significant, the festival has commissioned a
China premiere of Polish composer Krzysztof Penderecki's Symphony No 8,
Yu says.
"It shows that Beijing Music Festival can now have something of its own
rather than just playing well-known pieces."
(China Daily 09/19/2007 page4)
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