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Classical guitarist Yang Xuefei will present her recital on Mother's Day in Zhejiang province's capital Hangzhou.

Yang was China's first guitarist to enter a music school and to launch an international career.

She has performed in 40 countries in Europe, Asia and North America. Yang will perform solo and also with chamber orchestra in Hangzhou.

7:30 pm, May 13. Hangzhou Grand Theater, 66 Zhijiang Donglu, Jianggan district, Hangzhou. 800-857-1780.

Bringing Baroque back

Music from early 17th-century France and Italy will come to modern-day Guangzhou.

The French musical ensemble Le Poeme Harmonique will perform masterpieces from the baroque era's early years at the Guangzhou Opera House on May 20.

Since its 1998 founding, the ensemble has developed a reputation for playing such rare instruments as the theorbo, lirone, tiorbino and arpa tripla to recapture the poetry of early music. Vocalists sing romantic stories on candlelit stages.

Le Poeme Harmonique has traveled the world and has sold more than 150,000 CDs and DVDs.

8 pm, May 20. Opera Hall, Guangzhou Opera House, Exit B1 of Zhujiang New Town subway station, the interchange of subway line 3 and line 5, Guangzhou. 020-3839-2888.

IPR rocks

More than 100 singers will stage a free four-hour music festival on behalf of the Guangdong Association of Pop Music in Guangzhou this Sunday to promote the copyright protection of their songs.

Such stars as Na Ying and Mao Ning will join young pop idols, including Zhang Jingxuan and Liu Xijun.

3 pm-5 pm, May 13. Fangsuo Commune, TaiKoo Hui shopping mall, No 383, Tianhe Lu, Tianhe District, Guangzhou, Guangdong (Exit D of Shipaiqiao Station of subway line 3), Guangzhou.

Mello cello

Mischa Maisky earned the nickname "Rostropovich of the Future" at his debut with the Leningrad Philharmonic in 1965. One year later, he won the International Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow and began his studies with Rostropovich at the Moscow Conservatory while pursuing a concert career throughout the former Soviet Union. His cello recital in Shanghai features Schubert's Sonata for Arpeggione and Piano in a Minor, D 821 and Brahms' Cello Sonata in E Minor, Op 38.

7:30 pm, May 25. Shanghai Concert Hall, 523 Yan'an Donglu, Shanghai. 021-5386-6666.

String things

The Philadelphia Orchestra - one of US' "big five" - will start its weeklong China tour at the end of May. In Shanghai, the orchestra conducted by Charles Dutoit will perform Richard Georg Strauss' Op 20 Don Juan and Ludwig van Beethoven's Symphony No 7 in A Major, Op 92.

7:30 pm, June 6. Shanghai Grand Theater, 300 People's Avenue, Shanghai. 021-6386-8686.