STORY: Renowned American chamber music group to leave for China tour
SHOOTING TIME: Nov. 22, 2023
DATELINE: Nov. 23, 2023
LENGTH: 00:00:56
LOCATION: NEW YORK, U.S.
CATEGORY: CULTURE

SHOTLIST:
1. various of a theater and musical performance
2. SOUNDBITE 1 (English): WU HAN, Pianist, Co-artistic director of CMS
3. various of musical performance
4. SOUNDBITE 2 (English): WU HAN, Pianist, Co-artistic director of CMS
5. various of musical performance

STORYLINE:

The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center (CMS), one of the largest and most influential chamber music organizations in the world, is leaving for China next week for a six-city, over-two-week tour.

The trip to China is scheduled from Nov. 29 to Dec. 12.

SOUNDBITE 1 (English): WU HAN, Pianist, Co-artistic director of CMS
"We have been to China many, many times. And it's always my biggest pleasure to bring these great musicians to visit China. I am Chinese myself. So it's a homecoming for me."

The traveling ensemble is to perform eight concerts in six cities -- Nanjing, Tianjin, Shenzhen, Hong Kong, Shanghai and Beijing, and conduct four series of master classes for conservatory students in Hong Kong, Shenzhen, Shanghai and Tianjin.

SOUNDBITE 2 (English): WU HAN, Pianist, Co-artistic director of CMS
"This (the trip) is super important now in 2023 when both countries are trying to have a nice conversation, and to communicate and to become friends. I think it is wonderful (that) this tour just happens in December.
Chamber music is the art form that requires conversation, that requires exchange of ideas. So this is the perfect platform for us to see our friends and see our audience in China."

The CMS' first tour of China was in 2015, with subsequent visits in 2017, 2018 and 2019 to Shanghai, Beijing, Nanjing, and Hong Kong.

Xinhua News Agency correspondents reporting from New York, U.S.
(XHTV)