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2024 China, November 6: Chengdu

November 7, 2024
Photo: 2024 Todd Rosenberg Photography
Nov. 6, Chengdu: A string quartet traveled to the Chengdu Research Base of Giant Panda Breeding for the first residency activity of the day, a pop-up concert in the Chengdu Giant Panda Museum. Violinist Willa Finck, Associate Concertmaster Christine Lim, violist Che-Hung Chen, and Assistant Principal Cello Yumi Kendall open the concert with an arrangement of selections from the "Butterfly Lovers" violin concerto by Gang Chen and He Zhanhao.

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Nov. 6, Chengdu: Next on the program was the first movement from Mendelssohn’s String Quartet No. 1.

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Nov. 6, Chengdu: The second pop-up took place at the Tianfu Art Museum, which was celebrating its third birthday. A sculpture on the Museum’s grounds.

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Nov. 6, Chengdu: The quartet performs in the Museum’s lobby.

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Nov. 6, Chengdu: A young listener is enthralled by the concert.

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Nov. 6, Chengdu: The quartet ends the performance with Carlos Gardel’s “Por una cabeza” tango.

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Nov. 6, Chengdu: Yumi plays “Jingle Bells” for a young girl who was intrigued by her cello.

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Nov. 6, Chengdu: The afternoon was devoted to a rehearsal for the evening’s side-by-side concert with members of the Chengdu Symphony Orchestra. Principal Guest Conductor Marin Alsop rehearses with the Chengdu musicians.

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Nov. 6, Chengdu: The Philadelphia musicians then joined the rehearsal. Here, cellist Kathryn Picht Read meets her stand partner.

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Nov. 6, Chengdu: Violinist Philip Kates chats with a musician from Chengdu during the break.

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Nov. 6, Chengdu: Marin conducts the full ensemble during the rehearsal.

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Nov. 6, Chengdu: There are pandas everywhere, including these musical ones outside the Chengdu Symphony Concert Hall.

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Nov. 6, Chengdu: Marin and the combined orchestras rehearse Beethoven’s Symphony No. 7.

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Nov. 6, Chengdu: During a break, horn player Christopher Dwyer chats with a horn player from the Chengdu Symphony.

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Nov. 6, Chengdu: Marin and pianist George Li during the rehearsal of Tchaikovsky’s First Piano Concerto.

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Nov. 6, Chengdu: Co-Principal Trombone Matthew Vaughn and the bass trombonist of the Chengdu Symphony warm up backstage before the concert.

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Nov. 6, Chengdu: The Chengdu Symphony Concert Hall. The venue is less than a year old, having opened on December 31, 2023.

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Nov. 6, Chengdu: Marin and Chengdu Symphony Music Director Chen Lin exchange batons in a special gift ceremony.

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Nov. 6, Chengdu: Marin enters to begin the performance.

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Nov. 6, Chengdu: George during the performance of Tchaikovsky’s First Piano Concerto.

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Nov. 6, Chengdu: George, Marin, and the ensemble let the final note of the Concerto ring out.

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Nov. 6, Chengdu: During intermission, the second violin sections from both orchestras pose for a photo.

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Nov. 6, Chengdu: Marin leads the group in Beethoven’s Seventh Symphony during the second half of the concert.

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Nov. 6, Chengdu: The audience is rewarded with the first of two encores, Brahms’s Hungarian Dance No. 5.

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Nov. 6, Chengdu: Marin, Chen Lin, and the combined orchestra stand to acknowledge the audience’s warm reception.

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Nov. 6, Chengdu: Cellist Richard Harlow and his stand partner from the Chengdu Symphony shake hands at the end of the performance.

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