Shows, nightlife & activities

China National Traditional Orchestra

Date: March 17 - 7:30pm

Venue: NCPA

As a national-level orchestra directly under the Ministry of Culture, China National Traditional Orchestra, founded in 1960 under the direction of Premier Zhou Enlai, is regarded as the standard-setter, model and bench mark of China's folk music performance. The orchestra, made up of folk orchestra, chorus and art creation center, boasts a group of musicians and sharp-sighted managers. China National Traditional Orchestra not only performs typical traditional music in various forms but dabbles in contemporary Chinese music, western classic music and other genres. Adhering to popularizing traditional Chinese music and culture, the orchestra collects, arranges and performs a great variety of excellent folk music and contemporary selected works, adding a glorious stroke to China's traditional music.

Lany 2018 Live in Shanghai

Date: March 21 - 8 pm

Venue: Bandai Namco Shanghai Base Dream Hall

By the time Lany formally released the first in a series of EPs the band had established their own lane on music's crowded highway. Billboard praised the group's lush, luxuriant alternative sound when I Loved You dropped. By 2016, and the release of Where The Hell Are My Friends, The Line Of Best Fit were praising Lany's music for its swooning melange of gilded vocals, spidery riffs, and dusky synths. Much of the music that propelled them to multi-million-stream success was recorded out of aux sockets. "It was very do it yourself," Klein smiles. "We were led by conviction and instinct - writing and recording simultaneously. We just decided: let's make a band, stick the music online ourselves, and see what happens."

Drama The Face of Chiang Kai-shek

Date: March 17-18 - 7:30 pm

Venue: NCPA

This is a fictitious story written by a student of younger generation based on the school history about the senior teacher and the president. In 1943, Chiang Kai-shek, who was the president of National Central University invited three famous professors of the Department of Chinese Language and Literature to dinner. It made the three professors feel embarrassed: to go or not to go is an awkward matter. whether or not should they accept this invitation? In 1967, in the former capital, Nanjing, the three professors were investigated because of this matter. Each of them had different memories of whether they had been invited by Chiang and whether they had attended to Chiang's dinner.