Music festival: Shanghai sings the '60s' praises
Updated: 2016-06-29 07:55
By Chen Jie(China Daily)
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US violinist Gil Shaharm will perform at the Shanghai's annual Music in the Summer Air festival. [Photo provided to China Daily] |
Those who took the tests were instructed to sit still for about three minutes, the length it took for the roll of film to run through the camera.
Some of the tests were edited into compilation reels such as 12 Most Beautiful Women, 13 Most Beautiful Boys and 50 Fantastics.
Wareham and Phillips will do a live show with the screen tests on July 13 at the Shanghai Symphony Hall.
But, if the shows above are about today's artists paying tribute to 1960s icons, prepare to see a real 1960s star-Jane Birkin will make her China debut on July 9.
The 69-year-old was once a popular singer and actress, and the Hermes Birkin bag is named after her.
The daughter of the English actress Judy Campbell, Birkin started performing at 17 in London and married composer and conductor John Barry at 19.
At 20, she appeared in Italian director Michelangelo Antonioni's movie Blowup, which won the grand prix at the Cannes Film Festival.
Then, Birkin went to France where she auditioned for the movie Slogan.
When she got the part, she barely spoke any French and knew nothing about her co-star. But her screen test impressed Serge Gainsbourg-a famous French actor who had then just broken up with actress Brigitte Bardot.
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