Charm of ancient Chinese poems inspires new concert
Ji Yuqiao Published: Apr 19, 2021 11:18 PM
Photo: Courtesy of the Xi’an Symphony Orchestra
Photo: Courtesy of the Xi’an Symphony Orchestra
As a part of China’s Orchestra Festival 2021, the Xi’an Symphony Orchestra held a concert based on Chinese poems of the Tang Dynasty (618-907) accompanied by Western and traditional Chinese musical instruments on Saturday in Beijing.
Xi’an, capital of Northwest China’s Shaanxi Province, was the capital of the Tang Dynasty, and the concert held at the National Center for Performing Arts in Beijing was a kind of communication crossing hundreds of years between an ancient capital and the modern one.
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2020-12-14 10:00:56 GMT2020-12-14 18:00:56(Beijing Time) Xinhua English
BEIJING, Dec. 14 (Xinhua) Senior Communist Party of China (CPC) official Huang Kunming on Monday called for more quality works to break new ground on theater and acrobatics fronts.
Huang, a member of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and head of the Publicity Department of the CPC Central Committee, made the remarks while addressing the ninth national congress of the China Theater Association and the eighth national congress of the China Acrobats Association.
The works should reflect the zeitgeist of the era and live up to the people s expectations, Huang stressed.