Shanghai in a showroom
THE Shanghai Urban Planning Exhibition Centre near People's Square will receive the public in a trial opening today.
Violinist and conductor in limelight
The programme will include "Violin Concerto No 3" by Saint Saens, "Symphony
No 1" by Brahms and works by Weber. Lin, 32, received his music education in Shanghai and Moscow. He has
held concerts in many parts of the country and in France, Britain, Italy,
Austria, Switzerland, the Netherlands, Japan and Singapore. Famous conductor and violinist Isaac Stern praised Lin as a "high-calibre
young violinist" during the Beijing International Music Festival last
year. Conductor Zhang Xiaoxue received his education at the Central Conservatory
in Beijing and schools in Moscow, Russia and Dresden, Germany. He has co-operated with many orchestras in the world, including the China
National Symphony Orchestra, Shanghai Symphony Orchestra, Moscow State
Symphony Orchestra, German Jena Philharmonic, Nuernberg Symphony Orchestra
and Czech Prague Symphony Orchestra. "I have not met any other person like him who is filled with passion
and sincerity even if there is only a piano on the stage," said Zhang's
famous Russian mentor G. Rozhdestvensky while visiting China in 1996. Time: 7:30pm Place: 523 Yan'an Road E. Admission: 20-80 yuan Tel: 6386-9153
LIN Chaoyang,
first violin of the popular "Beijing Quartet" and Zhang Xiaoxue, a Chinese
conductor living in Germany, will team up with the Shanghai Broadcasting
Symphony Orchestra in a performance programme on March 4 at Shanghai Concert
Hall.
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