Shanghai 3

Today I went to a concert at the Shanghai Concert Hall. It was an ensemble of traditional Chinese instruments. The music they played varied tremendously. The young players performed masterfully. There was some sort of hammered zither, a flute, a drum, a variety of lutes, and an erhu. I couldn't read the program or understand the speaker but I appreciated the expert and emotional playing in a variety of styles. The first and last pieces sounded traditional to me, like what I was expecting to hear. In between were all kinds of other things. Some sounded like pop tunes but they were unfamiliar to me. I did recognize the Clarinet Polka, and Scott Joplin's The Entertainer, both performed by flute and zither.