Universal Music Greater China and iQiyi, China's leading online entertainment platform, announced a deal on Oct. 18 to distribute music globally from contestants on the popular Chinese rap competition show "The Rap of China 2024."
Tony Ann's music journey began at 11 years old when his schoolteacher showed his class a documentary about German composer Beethoven and his life. That inspired the boy who was born in Beijing and had moved to Toronto, Canada, with his family when he was 6 years old.
After their performance in north China's Tianjin Municipality on Sunday afternoon, the 14 members of Juilliard415, the prestigious large ensemble from Juilliard's Historical Performance Department, stood in a line and bowed to the audience, who reciprocated with warm appreciation.
The award-winning Cape Town Opera Chorus from South Africa staged Horizons, a concert of African choral music on Thursday at the more than 600-year-old Divine Music Administration inside the Temple of Heaven in Beijing, as part of the ongoing 27th Beijing Music Festival.