Event 

Title:

Traditional Chinese Music Concert by the Butterfly Girls Ensemble

When:

Sun 23 May 2010 - Sun 23 May 2010 19.30

Where:

National Center for the Performing Arts, 国家大剧院

Area of Beijing:

Central

Category:

Music Performance (concert hall)

Description

The Butterfly Girls Ensemble consists of several young pretty girls who are excellent performers selected from Zhejiang Chinese Orchestra, and it is an ensemble featured as stringed and woodwind music in Jiangnan (South of Yangtze River) and Zhejiang provincial local music. Their performances include different forms such as singing, dancing and folk customs. With a lively style, their performances are always attractive and welcomed.
The Jiangnan stringed and woodwind music is a combination of stringed instrument and woodwind instrument. It is a kind of music that goes popular in Zhejiang Province performed by Chinese string, bamboo musical instruments with vivacious, elegant and graceful style and beautiful, gentle melody. The music has a long history and it was popular in Hangzhou (the capital of Zhejiang Province) in the Tang dynasty (618-907). The Jiangnan stringed and woodwind music has already been listed in the Directory of Non-material Cultural Heritage by Chinese government.

    

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Venue

Venue:

National Center for the Performing Arts, 国家大剧院     Website

Street:

A short walk west from Tian'AnMen Square

Nearest Subway :

Tian'AnMen Xi (West) (line 1)

Ad. in Chinese :

国家大剧院

Area of Beijing :

Central

Description

The giant titanium-and-glass dome west of Tian'AnMen Square (behind the Great Hall of the People) hosts Chinese and international art performances of the highest calibre. The complex houses an opera house, a music hall and a drama hall and can seat up to 6,200. It is the flagship performance space in China. Designed by French architect Paul Andreu, it opened in 2007.

The dome is 212 meters across in the east-west direction, 144 meters in the north-south direction, and is 46 meters high. It is situated in the center of a large shallow pond and the entrance passes under it. Paul Andreu has said that he envisioned the hall as a tribute to the traditional Chinese image of Heaven and Earth: round above square.

    

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