October 15
Shanghai Center Theater
The Roy Hargrove Quintet from the United States, one of the featured jazz bands at this year's JZ festival, will perform in Shanghai on this date. Few if any contemporary musicians have kept alive the spirit of the after-hours jam session as vigorously as Hargrove, an aggressive trumpeter with a charming, relaxed stage manner. He was born in Texas and is now a feature of the New York scene. Hargrove made his major label debut at the age of 21 for Novus. He made several more albums for the label before moving on to Verve. Hargrove also leads a big band packed with the cream of New York's younger talent.
7:30 pm, 1376 Nanjing Road W
October 16
Century Park
The Shanghai Jazz Festival will open at Century Park, where bands and singers from home and abroad will perform from 1 pm to late in the night today and tomorrow.
Forty-six international performers from South Africa, Japan, Finland, Switzerland, Denmark, Brazil and Cuba present jazz, blues, funk, reggae, folk, rock and electronic music. Bconnected, a band from Switzerland founded by guitarist Eugene Montenero in 1994, is expected to be one of the highlights. The band will perform from 6:20 pm to
7:20 pm today. This is part of the band's China tour sponsored by Titoni, a Swiss watch company. Tickets for the festival are priced from 100 yuan to 1,000 yuan. They can be purchased online from the official website: www.jzfestival.com. Audiences can enter the park through Gate No 5 on Huamu Road.
1359 Huamu Road
October 17
LifeHub@Daning
A free Chinese music festival will take place this weekend and next at the central stage of the shopping compound LifeHub. Ye Bei, a ballad singer who became well known in the mid-1990s, will perform today. Interested parties can visit www.daningdaning.com to register for front-row seats.
1978 Gonghexin Road
October 18
Liuli China Museum
Liuli China Museum has re-opened on Taikang Road after moving out of the Xintiandi community two years ago. The museum, the only one in the city dedicated to glass art, was founded by former movie actress-turned glass sculptor Loretta Hui-shan Yang. A giant peony made of stainless steel covers one of the building's exterior walls; while a caf and souvenir shop take up the ground floor. The second and third floors are reserved for the museum's exhibitions, which include ancient glass works from over 1,500 years ago.
25 Taikang Road
October 19
Shanghai Grand Theatre
The Camerata Salzburg from Austria will give a concert tonight. The group is known for its interpretations of Mozart's music and ranks as one of the world's top chamber orchestras. Salzburg was not only Mozart's home, but also that of founder Bernhard Paumgartner. The Shanghai concert will feature violinist Lukas Hagen and viola player Iris Juda-Hagen.
300 Renmin Avenue
October 20
Dock Theater, Zone D, Expo Site
Disney has created a live show called As the Bell Rings based on its popular TV series of the same name. The show in Chinese combines song and dance with acrobatics and will be staged at the Dock Theater in Zone D of the Expo Site this month. Shanghai City Animation Media Co Ltd joined hands with an acrobatics school and the Shanghai Theatre Academy to create this stage show. All of the actors, aged 16 to 20, are professional acrobats from the Wuqiao Acrobatic Art School in Hebei province.
October 21
Contrast Gallery
An Incurable Classicist showcases 21 oil paintings by artist Shao Fan. Shao's paintings are modern interpretations of traditional "Literati" thought and aesthetics. They explore the ramifications of philosophical and cultural changes taking place in China today. His first major solo exhibition takes this exploration to new heights, crossing the chasm where traditional and contemporary concepts converge, and the individual becomes one with nature.
The exhibition will run until Nov 11.
181 Jiangxi Road M
(China Daily 10/15/2010)
