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Date: Oct 8－8 pm

Venue: Shenzhen Bay Sport Center Gymnasium

Price: 280-880 yuan

Teresa Teng was a Taiwanese pop singer. She was known for her folk songs and romantic ballads. Many became standards in her lifetime, such as "When Will You Return?" and "The Moon Represents My Heart". She recorded songs not only in her native Mandarin but also in Taiwanese Hokkien, Cantonese, Japanese, Indonesian and English. Teng, a lifelong sufferer from asthma, died in 1995 from a severe respiratory attack while on vacation in Thailand. She was 42.

Ralph Vaughn Williams's－Sea Symphony

Date: Oct 16－7:30 pm

Venue: Beijing Concert Hall

Price: 100-580 yuan

Peking Sinfonietta and City of Glasgow Chorus team up to perform Ralph Vaughn Williams's A Sea Symphony, his first essay in symphonic form, and one of the greatest large scale English choral works. From the thrilling opening brass chords and the crashing wave of the choir's first entry, to the final calm after the storm, this four movement work brings you the world's oceans in all their moods and colors. Bring your aural surfboard and lifejacket. In the first half of the concert, Peking Sinfonietta explores equally colorful English repertoire. The "Three Elizabeths" Suite shows Eric Coates at the height of his powers.