Music with meaning

Fang Qiong, a renowned singer and professor at the Shanghai Conservatory of Music, presents a concert in Beijing, with ancient poetry in focus. Fang Aiqing reports.

The beauty of classical Chinese poetry was enhanced with the guqin (a Chinese seven-string zither) as Fang Qiong, a renowned singer and professor at the Shanghai Conservatory of Music, staged a concert in Beijing on Thursday.

The first half of the concert featured old tunes involving the guqin and xiao (a vertical bamboo flute).