Beginning Sunday evening, January 3rd at 7pm, JPR's Classics & News Service will begin a new series of special programs called Shanghai Spring.
For decades, we’ve been hearing about how China is the future. 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.
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.
Shanghai Spring airs Sunday evenings at 7pm on JPR's Classics & News Service. To listen online, click the "Listen Live" link at the top of the page and select "Classics & News."
