Thursdays at 7 on WSCL, 89.5.
Shanghai Spring is an 8-part radio series that will take you to one of the most bustling and vibrant cities of the world today and give you a front-row seat at one of the preeminent events in its cultural calendar – the Shanghai Spring International Music Festival. This groundbreaking project is the first of its kind, uniting the WFMT Radio Network, in the West, and the Shanghai Conservatory of Music, in the East — throwing open the door between Western and Chinese music.
Award-winning broadcaster and music journalist Paolo Pietropaolo will be your guide, leading you along the sun-dappled streets of Shanghai’s French Concession, where music comes streaming out of windows as city life unfolds below in a riot of color and noise. Each two-hour program includes up to 100 minutes of music along with sound-rich mini-documentaries that will make you feel like you yourself are sipping tea on Fuxing Lu or strolling along the Bund, watching the world go by, and seeing Shanghai change and change again in the blink of an eye.
As well, you’ll meet the musicians and composers who are revolutionizing Western classical music in China, creating a brand-new sound and ensuring a global future for the Western classical music tradition.
