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Yunnan soprano\’s golden voice finds a hall to match in Vien

Yang Xuejin is a Yunnan Province-born musician from the Yi ethnic minority, well known for her works such as \"There Is a Beautiful Place.\"  Chinese folk singer Yang Xuejin is to give a solo concert - \"Oriental Lark, Colorful Yunnan\" - at Vienna\'s Golden Hall in Austria on September 4. Yang is a Yunnan Province-born musician from the Yi ethnic minority, well known for her works such as \"There Is a Beautiful Place.\" The songs the soprano sings are popular in China and in...

Strobolight Tours in China

Strobolight perform at Yugong Yishan in Beijing on August 31 [Zhong Yi]  The UK-based post-rock band Strobolight performed their third concert in China at Yugong Yishan, Beijing\'s premier venue for live music, on August 31. The four-piece band formed at Oxford University in 2007. It includes Robin Walton (vocals and guitar) and Graeme Karney (bass) from the UK and Sen Xu (drums) and Ken Wang (piano and keyboard) from China. Walton composes most of the music they perform. Born in...

Red Sea Jazz Festival kicks off in Eilat

The 23rd Red Sea Jazz Festival (RSJF) kicks off on Sunday night at the port city of Eilat in Israel. With the internationally acclaimed bassist and composer Avishai Cohen as the new artistic director, this year\'s festival continues the tradition of featuring the world\'s top jazz performers (John Scofield, Dee Dee Bridgewater, Dafnis Prieto etc.) but also goes in new directions with the choice of the younger generation in international jazz scene as well as the Israeli musicians (The Israeli...

Man Fong to hold concert tour

She took off her high heels, and danced on stage like an innocent girl, then sat down cross-legged and talked to a full house of fans. Man Fong [China Daily] Taiwan singer Man Fong exposed her most private emotions on the first leg of her “Singing in My Room” tour on the mainland, turning theaters into her private sitting room and her audiences into friends. The performances celebrated the 10th anniversary of the cutting-edge City Pictorial magazine, based in Guangzhou, Guangdong...

Opera to be composed on Twitter

The Royal Opera House in London has invited members of the public to help create a new libretto through the social networking site Twitter. The submitted \"tweets\", which may be no longer than 140 characters in length, will be set to music and performed in September. The first scene of the as-yet-untitled work has already been completed and features a man who has been kidnapped by a group of birds. In a later development a cat intervenes to aid his escape, thought it has a surreal and...

Lisa Ono to make Chinese television debut

Lisa Ono  After the most controversial contestant, Zeng Yike, was eliminated from the \"Super Girl 2009\" competition earlier this month, organizer Hunan Satellite TV station seems to be counting on guest stars to stir up the live show\'s ratings. Japanese-Brazilian crooner Lisa Ono will be a guest performer on the show this Friday, when the top six contestants vie for the remaining five seats. This will be the first time that the popular bossa nova singer has made an appearance...

Linkin Park to return to China as promised

The American rock band\'s visit last year was canceled, but vowed it would be back and Shanghai Stadium is the venue for the concert of the year. Linkin Park, the Grammy-winning rock band, keeps its promise of a comeback with a long-anticipated concert at Shanghai Stadium this month, two years after its Shanghai debut in 2007. It is timely, as the smash-hit movie \"Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen\" has taken China by storm. The Shanghai gig is titled \"New Divide,\" the theme from the...

In memory of folk music

Folk singer Wang Kun(R) sings with her disciple Huang Jiaqi on July 30. [Xinhua] Renowned Chinese folk singer Wang Kun, 84, and her students will give a special concert \"Memory and Love\" on Sunday at the National Center for the Performing Arts, to celebrate her 70-year singing career. Wang\'s students, many of whom are themselves popular singers such as Cheng Fangyuan and Li Lingyu, will be on stage. Her latest disciple, 9-year-old Huang Jiaqi, whom Wang acknowledged recently, will...

Lady GaGa charts third No. 1 on Mainstream Top 40

Lady Gaga performs during the 2009 MuchMusic Video Awards in Toronto, June 21, 2009.[Agencies]  Lady GaGa has become the third recording artist in the 16-year history of the Mainstream Top 40 airplay chart to collect three No. 1 songs from a debut album. \"LoveGame\" (Interscope) rose from No. 2 to the top spot, marking Lady GaGa\'s third No. 1, after \"Just Dance\" (two weeks) and \"Poker Face\" (five weeks). The three songs appear on her top five Billboard 200 album, \"The...

Last of Beethoven sonatas

Beethoven fans should not miss this. Distinguished French pianist Jean-Efflam Bavouzet will return to the Forbidden City Concert Hall to complete the Beethoven Sonatas Cycle tonight and on Sunday. The pianist has played 26 of Beethoven\'s sonatas in six concerts at the venue since last September. He will wrap up the cycle with the last six pieces including op90, op101 and op106 tonight and op109, op110 and op111 on Sunday. \"I really enjoy coming back again and again to the concert hall in...