It sounds like $400 million gets you a lot more performing arts center in China than it does in the U.S. The New York Times reports that the National Center for the Performing Arts in Beijing, near Tiananmen Square, opened over the weekend. To read about what you might hear in "the egg," read Matthew Westphal.
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Peter Dobrin has been writing about classical music and the arts for The Inquirer since 1989. He earned an undergraduate degree in performance from the University of Miami, and received a master's degree in music criticism from the Peabody Institute of the Johns Hopkins University.
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