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The Church Music Concert Black Adoree' Jackson Jersey , a part of the Beijing Music Festival (BMF), has offered Chinese music lovers something more than just quality live concerts in the past decade. In addition, the Concert held an organ recital for the first time this year.


Unlike the West, concerts held in the churches are rare in China, as most Chinese people think the church is more of a place of religious rituals rather than musical performance.


The Church Music Concert Black Corey Davis Jersey , founded in 2006, however, ventures to break the stereotype by inviting more Chinese music lovers to sit on a church bench and listen to live concerts, something that many non-Christians seldom experienced in the past.


From singers to instrument players, from Handel to Mozart Black Harold Landry Jersey , the festival held a total of 11 first-class classical music recitals brought by world-renowned big names including American trumpeter Chris Botti, South Korean soprano Sumi Jo, Irish flute player Sir James Galway, and Chinese pianists Li Yundi and Zhu Xiaomei.


Church concerts


While some may have easily mistaken it as an event with chanting choirs and religious rhythms, the festival actually got its name from the place where it is held annually as a tradition—the Wangfujing Church or St. Joseph's Church Black Rashaan Evans Jersey , a three-hundred-year-old Romanesque building located in Beijing.


For classical musicians, church is a perfect place to perform as the structure serves as a natural amplifier and mixer for the sounds to echo many times and linger much longer in the process of transmission after they're played.


Wang Jian, the renowned Chinese cellist who performed Bach's Suites for Solo Cello at the Church Music Concert of the 10th Beijing Music Festival in 2007, favored this church in Beijing the most among all, according to a BMF press release sent to the Global Times.


"I had performed many times in churches in other countries Black Delanie Walker Jersey ," said Wang after the concert, "But the best one ever is this time at the Wangfujing Church."


"Because the echoes and resonance in some of the churches I experienced formerly were too much, but in the Wangfujing Church, everything is just perfect," he added.


However Black Marcus Mariota Jersey , there are a few of the Church Music Concert performances that truly needed a church as the venue to perform in order to reincarnate the religious pieces, such as George Frideric Handel's "Messiah" played by professionals from The Academy of Ancient Music at the 11th BMF in 2008 and Haydn's choral classic "Nelson Mass" performed by German orchestra Klang Verwaltung in 2009.


Chinese ties


The Church Music Concert debuted at the 9th BMF with Austrian music master Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's "Requiem (K.626)," performed by China Philharmonic Orchestra led by renowned Chinese conductor Yu Long and singers from the Teatro La Fenice, one of Europe's most renowned theaters, as that year marked the 250th birth anniversary of Mozart.


The philharmonic concert was broadcast live on 26 channels in 22 cities across the country Kevin Byard Jersey , bringing a whole new marvelous experience to the Chinese audience about the combination of the sacred place and music.


And the musicians, too, could easily connect with the Chinese audience seated no more than 50 meters away from the central stage, though some of the musicians are less famous in China. Apart from overseas virtuosos, it might be local soloists who charmed the Chinese audience the most at the festival. According to the BMF Derrick Henry Jersey , the tickets for 2014 recital of Chinese pianist Li Yundi and that of Paris-based Chinese pianist Zhu Xiaomei last year were literally the "hottest tickets in town."


With an effort of over a decade, the popularity of the festival is picking up. And the reason for this trend, mostly created by non-religious Chinese music lovers, can be discovered in the explanation the cellist Wang Jian gave on why he loved Bach's music at the BMF in 2007.


"Everyone has a noble side in them, which is exactly what Bach's music is intended to convey Jack Conklin Jersey ," said Wang.


"Even though I am not a religious person, I am moved by his music every time I listen to it."




NEW DELHI， Sept. 27 (Xinhua)-- India has decided to review the Most Favoured Nation， (MFN) status that it has granted to Pakistan， India's official broadcaster - All India Radio (AIR) said Tuesday.


The status will be reviewed by Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi during a meeting that is scheduled to take place on Thursday.


"Senior officials of the Ministry of External Affairs and Commerce Ministry will attend the meeting，" the broadcaster said.


India accorded MFN status to Pakistan in 1996 under WTO's General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade.


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