Spring music festival dates announced
China DailyA scene from the Shanghai Ballet production of The White Haired Girl. The 39th Shanghai Spring International Music Festival, the oldest music festival in China, will take place from Friday to April 14. More than 100 pieces of orchestra will bring together around 300 musicians from several notable Shanghai institutions, including instrumentalists from the Shanghai Symphony Orchestra and the Shanghai Philharmonic Orchestra, and singers from the Shanghai Opera House, the Shanghai Conservatory of Music, and the children's chorus of CWI Children's Palace. A poster for the opening concert of the Shanghai Spring International Music Festival. Xu Zhong, director of Shanghai Opera House, will conduct Hector Berlioz's Symphony Romeo and Juliet, a representative piece of French Romantic music.