Chamber Music in May

Chamber Music in May

• Source: Global Times
• [08:32 April 01 2011]
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Fifteen performances of chamber music will be staged at the National Center for the Performing Arts (NCPA) from May 2 to May 20, with professional orchestras and 17 prominent artists from 12 countries coming together to present a splendid annual May Music Festival.
Confronting the challenge of presenting chamber music, still a relatively new and unfamiliar phenomenon in China compared to full-blown orchestras, the NCPA will take a number of novel approaches in the upcoming festival, including placing an emphasis on the intimacy of string quartets and the mixing of seemingly disparate instruments, such as organ and cello, a pairing which only rarely occurs abroad and never domestically in such a prominent venue, according to organizers.