Time: 19:30, Sunday 17 October 2010
Venue: Shanghai Concert Hall
Tickets: VIP/￥1080/880/680/380/180/80
Conductor: John Wilson
Singer: Claire Martin
Singer: Curtis Stigers
Narrator and singer: Mark McGann
Programme:
In My Life
Julia
I Should Have Known Better
You've Got To Hide Your Love Away
Girl
Ticket To Ride
Norwegian Wood
Yes It Is
A Day In The Life
All You Need Is Love
I Am The Walrus
Strawberry Fields Forever
Come Together
Two of Us
Dig A Pony
Love
Jealous Guy
Beautiful Boy
Free As A Bird
Imagine
About John Lennon
John Winston Ono Lennon, MBE (9 October 1940 – 8 December 1980) was an English singer-songwriter who rose to fame as one of the founding members of The Beatles, and together with Paul McCartney formed Lennon/McCartney, one of the most successful songwriting partnerships of the 20th century.
Lennon's album sales in the United States alone stand at 14 million units, and as performer, writer, or co-writer he is responsible for 27 number one singles on the US Hot 100 chart.a In 2002, a BBC poll on the 100 Greatest Britons voted him eighth, and in 2008 Rolling Stone ranked him the fifth greatest singer of all time. He was posthumously inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1987 and into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1994.
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Conductor: John Wilson
John Wilson has established an enviable reputation as a conductor, arranger and scholar, recognised internationally as an expert in the specialist fields of light music, jazz and music for screen, as well as a passionate advocate for British music.
He has made many recordings, most notably a series of highly acclaimed CDs with the John Wilson Orchestra on Vocalion. A keen advocate of English music, his third Coates disc, Eric Coates: London Again, with the RLPO on the Avie label, featured on US Tower Records’ Best of 2005 list.
He arranged and conducted the music for Kevin Spacey’s film Beyond The Sea, the score of which was nominated for a 2006 American Grammy Award. He enjoys a close working relationship with Paul McCartney and has orchestrated and conducted several of his compositions with the London Symphony Orchestra. |
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Singer: Curtis Stigers
“What I’m after is a complex and ever-changing thing, which makes it difficult to define who I am. I sing beautiful love songs, but I’m not really a crooner. I write, but I’m not just a singer-songwriter. I’m certainly a jazz singer but so much more, too. I grew up on Stevie Wonder and Sarah Vaughn, Johnny Cash and Led Zeppelin, Joni Mitchell and Coleman Hawkins, B.B. King and Elton John, Joe Williams and The Clash, Elvis Costello and Sonny Rollins, Tom Waits and Steely Dan, Louis Armstrong and Ray Charles, and on and on. That’s who I am and there’s nobody else like me. That’s how I want my music to sound. Like me.”——Curtis Stigers |
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