Adele poses with her Grammy award for Best Pop Solo Performance for her song "Set Fire To The Rain [Live]" backstage at the 55th annual Grammy Awards in Los Angeles, California February 10, 2013.[Photo/Agencies]

Music

National Museum of China leads the way

Chou back with her big sound

Mogao Grottoes murals prepped for digital display

Beijing Symphony Orchestra's last season was an unqualified success, with 100 concerts at home and abroad. Its joint concert with the London Philharmonic Orchestra at the Royal Festival Hall of London during the Olympic Games won wide acclaim.

This year, Beijing Symphony Orchestra will collaborate further with renowned musicians, including conductor Rennady Rozhdestvensky, violinist Sarah Chang and French pianist Jean Efflam Bavouzet.

In 2013, the orchestra is scheduled to perform at the Dvorak Prague International Music Festival, Bruckner Festival in Austria and Mexico's Cervantes Festival.

In August, the orchestra will launch a Forbidden City Summer Festival to celebrate contemporary Chinese composers such as Guo Wenjing, Zhou Long, Ye Xiaogang and Wang Xilin.

If you don't like classical music, don't fret, Adele is coming. The 25-year-old English singer-songwriter is expected to perform in China at a gala of Chinese and Western pop stars held at the Bird's Nest in April.

The award-winning star has a huge following in the country and her fans have set up a Chinese website and micro blog for her.

Voice of China, a popular talent show, featured Adele's Someone Like You, performed by the 19-year-old Zheng Hong from Fujian province. Her well-received rendition led to her being called "China's Adele".