 HRH The Prince of Wales today listened to a performance at the Royal College of Music (RCM) of a guzheng, a rare 21-string Chinese zither, given to him during the State Visit by China in 2015, as he honoured outstanding figures in international musical life at the Royal College of Music’s Annual Awards ceremony.
The guzheng will be on loan to the RCM which already houses close to 1,000 extraordinary musical instruments including the earliest dated guitar (from 1581), the earliest known stringed keyboard instrument (a clavicytherium from ca. 1480) and a remarkable collection of English viols from the seventeenth century. Read More via ClassicalSource. |
