Music for the holidays

With the schools' summer vacations around the corner, the Forbidden City Concert Hall is gearing up to entertain Beijing's children.

This year the annual festival, Opens the Door of Arts, will present more than 60 shows of symphonic concerts, choir, chamber concerts, jazz, percussion workshops, Peking Opera, ballet, acrobatics, magic and puppet shows.

The China Philharmonic Orchestra will present a concert under the baton of its artistic director Yu Long to kick off the festival on July 10 while Tan Lihua will conduct the Beijing Symphony Orchestra to close the curtains on Aug 31.