Golden oldies

By Chen Jie (China Daily)
Updated: 2008-09-05 11:20

The Mid-Autumn Festival, or the Moon Festival, which is celebrated on the 15th day of the 8th lunar month of the Chinese calendar (this year, this day falls on September 14), is a popular Chinese celebration of abundance and togetherness.

Traditionally, on this day, family members and friends gather to enjoy the bright mid-autumn harvest moon and moon cakes together. It is a time to remember the past. In keeping with this spirit, the Beijing Artists Management Corp. Ltd is presenting a concert of songs popular in the 1980s.

The program features once popular pop singers such as Tong Ange(pictured) and Jonathan Lee from Taiwan and Zheng Xulan from the Chinese mainland. They will perform their trademark hits. The tenor Zhang Jianyi will sing the popular Italian folk song Come Back to Sorrento while soprano You Hongfei will sing It Is Me.

Zhang Yi will take the baton to lead the Symphony Orchestra of the National Ballet of China to open the concert with Shostakovich's Festival Overture and also play the selection from Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake. The concert will close with a rendition of The Sea, My Hometown, a song that enjoyed great popularity in China in the 1980s.

7:30 pm, Sept 12

Great Hall of the People, Tian'anmen Square

9609-6260

(China Daily 09/05/2008 page20)