What's on in Beijing (Aug 19-25)

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Piano Carnival

The National Center for the Performing Arts is welcoming a piano carnival this weekend with 10 pianists from China and abroad staging a show together.

Big names include Jerome Nathaniel Lowenthal from the US, Peter Alexander Takacs from Romania, Alexandre Moutouzkine from Russia and Graham John Scott from the UK. They will play classical melodies of Mozart, Schumann, Maurice Ravel and Sergei Prokofiev.

If you go:

7:30 pm, Aug 20. National Center for the Performing Arts, 2 West Chang'an Avenue, Xicheng district. 010 -6655-0000.

Ticket: 80 - 500 yuan ($12-75)