What’s on
Honne: Love Me/Love Me Not World Tour
When: March 18, 8 pm
Where: Tango Live, Beijing
After a joyous China debut last year, Honne returns to the country with the soundtrack to our digital intimacies and urban love lives in the 21st century.
Its smooth electronic soul is a widescreen take on modern heartbreak and timeless heartache.
Honne’s smash-hit singles — Warm on a Cold Night, Good
Together and Day One — have won the band a massive global following, and its debut album was a captivating collection that flirted with funk and shone in its quieter moments.
It recently released an irresistibly infectious sophomore album, a blissful, swooning live show perfected over the last half-decade.
Honne consists of singer Andy and multi-instrumentalist James, who first bonded over their shared upbringing in southwestern England and a mutual fascination with Japan. During a midnight viewing of
Lost in Translation, it became apparent that their sense of loose partnership — a sort of wandering through strange environments and struggling to convey what you mean — was just as relevant to their lives off screen. Kodaline: 2019 Live in Beijing When: Feb 18, 8 pm
Where: Tango Live, Beijing Platinum-selling Irish band Kodaline brings its show to Beijing on Monday.
The band consists of singer Steve Garrigan, guitarist Mark Prendergast, bassist Jason Boland and drummer Vinny May.
It released its new album, Politics of Living, in September to rave reviews before embarking on a world tour.
Kodaline was formed in Dublin, Ireland, in 2012 and achieved immediate success.
All I Want, from its first extended play recording, has logged more than 46 million views on YouTube.
Its 2013 debut album, Perfect
World, established it as a highly emotional pop/rock band with perfectly crafted songs in the vein of Coldplay, while 2015’s
Coming Up for Air, gave it its
second Irish No 1.
The band’s continual tours confirm its status as a growing force in the music world. The Barber of Seville When: Feb 20-24, 7:30 pm Where: National Center for the Performing Arts, Beijing The Barber of Seville, or The Useless Precaution, is set in Seville, Spain, in the 17th century.
Young Count Almaviva falls in love with Rosina, a rich and beautiful girl, but the greedy Doctor Bartolo, Rosina’s guardian, intends to marry her himself.
Not knowing what to do, Almaviva asks for help from Figaro, a barber in the city who loves meddling in other people’s business.
Bartolo tries every means block Figaro’s many ruses, but his efforts are in vain, and the story culminates in the marriage of Almaviva and Rosina after a series of humorous farces. School of Rock When: Feb 22-28, 7:15 pm Where: Shanghai Grand Theater
Based on the hit movie
School of Rock, this new musical play follows Dewey Finn, a failed wannabe rock star who decides to earn extra cash by posing as a teacher at a prestigious prep school.
There, he turns a class of straight-A students into a guitar-shredding, bass-slapping, mind-blowing rock band.
With a new score by Andrew Lloyd Webber, lyrics by Glenn Slater, story by Julian Fellowes and an incredible cast of kids shredding guitars, pounding drums and rocking out live,
School of Rock is a treat for all
ages. Murray Perahia Piano Recital When: Feb 27, 7:30 pm Where: National Center for the Performing Arts, Beijing
In the more than 40 years he has been performing, Murray Perahia has become one of the most sought-after and cherished pianists of our time, performing in all the world’s major international music centers and with every leading orchestra.
He is principal guest conductor of the Academy of St. Martin in the Fields, London, with which he has toured as conductor and pianist throughout the United States, Europe, Japan and Southeast Asia.
Born in New York, Perahia started playing piano at age 4, and later attended Mannes College, where he majored in conducting and composition.
His summers were spent at the Marlboro Festival, where he collaborated with such musicians as Rudolf Serkin, Pablo Casals and the members of the Budapest String Quartet.
During that time, he also studied with Mieczysław Horszowski.
In subsequent years, he developed a close friendship with Vladimir Horowitz, whose perspective and personality became an enduring inspiration.
Recently, Perahia embarked on an ambitious project to edit the complete Beethoven sonatas.
He also produced and edited hours of recordings of recently discovered master classes by the legendary pianist Alfred Cortot, which resulted in the highly acclaimed Sony CD release Alfred Cortot: The Master Classes.