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Whatever You’re Celebrating…Celebrate at M!

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M Celebrations Packages (December 1 till Chinese New Year)

Foie Gras, Caviar, Truffles, Champagne Cocktails…Oh My!
Whatever the occasion—family get-togethers, corporate functions, holiday meals or
simply a celebration of delicious food—M has just the perfect feast for you and your guests. For M on the Bund celebration packages, please click here. For Glam celebration packages, please click here.

Minimum 10 guests; please call 86-21-6350 9988 for festive menus & reservations.

A Very M Christmas
M on the Bund and Glam’s fabulous Christmas celebrations are delicious, festive and oh-so-warm
& cosy. Spend the holiday surrounded by loved ones, gorgeous decorations and M’s seasonal delights like our homemade Stollen, our famous mulled wines and our classic Christmas goodies!

Christmas Eve December 24, 2017
Dinner at M on the Bund: Five Course Menu, 688 RMB*

Dinner at Glam: A Feast to Share, 388 RMB per person*

Christmas Day December 25, 2017

Lunch: M’s Christmas Day Lunch Menu, 588 RMB*
Children’s Menu: 388 RMB* Gifts & treats for the kids 11.30am-3pm
Dinner: A la carte menu, with our Christmas specials*

New Year’s Eve December 31, 2017

Welcome the New Year in style with our fabulous New Year’s Eve menu and an unbeatable view of the Shanghai skyline. Six delicious courses of caviar, foie gras and truffles, party favours and Champagne to toast the year ahead!

1188 RMB per person*

New Year’s Day
January 1, 2018

Start 2018 on the right foot with a strong Bloody Mary and our delicious (read: essential!) Recovery Brunch.

Three courses: 298 RMB*

For menus & reservations: (86 21) 6350 9988 / [email protected]
*10% service charge applies

Michelle Garnaut in 45 Years 45 Stories

By Community, Michelle

45 Years, 45 Stories is a collection of stories told from Australian and Chinese perspectives that speak to the breadth and depth of the friendship between our peoples. The stories celebrate the multifaceted community and cultural links – across sports, science, the arts, business and academia – that are the fabric of the Australia-China relationship.

Michelle GARNAUT

Diana Xin: M Literary Resident 2017

By Community

“I arrived in Beijing for the M Residency after having put aside my creative work for the better half of a year to contend with life’s other demands. The residency allowed me the time to confront difficult revisions and continue correspondences with editors. I was grateful for the stretch of days devoted to writing without distraction and the afternoons spent in research at the Anton Library of Chinese Studies. A new atmosphere and a different schedule can change the way you work, and I appreciated having time for discovery as I found my way to surprising new work. I also enjoyed getting lost in the city, reconnecting with places I used to know, and noting the changes both in the urban landscape and in my own life. I left the residency with not only new drafts but also a renewed habit of keeping the work central.”

SPECIAL PLANT-BASED Pop-Up: Dinner & Brunch at Glam

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Glam partners with Hong Kong’s Grassroots Pantry for an exclusive plant-based pop-up “Autumn in Shanghai”.

From Char-grilled Cauliflower Handles to Teff Pumpkin Gnocchi, the creative dishes by Chefs Hamish Waddel and Peggy Chen only feature seasonal, organic and locally sourced igredients, and most importantly, completely plant-based.

NOVEMBER 24 & 25
6pm-10:30pm
6-course shared DINNER at Glam
338pp + 10% service charge

NOVEMBER 26
12pm-3pm
4-course shared BRUNCH at Glam
298pp + 10% service charge

*Reservations encouraged

Bob’s Music Blog: November Crystal Chamber Music Concert – Haydn & Dvorak

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On November 26th at 4:00PM at Glam we will be treated to two of the most beloved string quartets in the whole chamber music repertory:  Joseph Haydn’s “Lark Quartet” and Antonin Dvorak’s “American Quartet”.

Ticket Type Event Details Price
Adult November 26, 2017 at 4:00 PM ¥ 85.00 CNY
Student November 26, 2017 at 4:00 PM ¥ 40.00 CNY

Joseph Haydn is lovingly known as Papa Haydn by composers and musicians.  Although he had no children of his own (that we know of), he is widely considered as the “father” of the symphony, the piano trio and the string quartet.  These three genres sprung up in the mid-18th Century at the end of the Baroque and beginning of the Classical eras and Haydn was the central influence in their development.

Haydn wrote over eighty string quartets and they span most of his musical life from his thirties until his late sixties.  The string quartets thus read like a textbook of the musical development of this great composer.  On November 26th we will hear what is arguably the most popular of his string quartets, the “Lark”.  Like most of the nicknames of Haydn’s works, the name “Lark” was given by his publisher in order to increase sales:  “Lark” was easier to remember than Opus 64, number 5!  The “Lark” was included in the very last group of six quartets (Opus 64) written before Haydn went on his first trip to London. The London trip, where Haydn heard his quartets played in concert halls rather than in more intimate chamber settings (like Glam!), brought about a fundamental change in Haydn’s compositional style.  Because of the acoustical requirements larger halls, his quartets became more demonstrative and concert-like.  Up to this point, Haydn’s quartets had been more “conversational”, intimate exchanges–sometimes serious, sometimes witty–between the four instruments.  The “Lark” is one of the last, and one of the greatest, examples of this earlier style.

If Joseph Haydn was a musical “father”, we might call Anton Dvorak one of his musical “grandchildren”.  After all Haydn and Dvorak were born in close proximity in what would later become the Austria-Hungarian Empire, and they both had an strong affinity for folk music–although Haydn’s interest was purely musical and Dvorak’s more nationalistic.  Closing the gap even more was the fact that Dvorak was one of the later Romantics, like Brahms, who felt that the early Romantics had gone too far in their move away from the classic tradition.  Dvorak therefor endeavored to preserve the classical forms and genres of Haydn, Mozart and Beethoven, like the string quartet, while preserving at the same time his romantic élan.  We can easily see the successful result of Dvorak’s efforts in the American Quartet that we will hear on November 26th.  If we simply look at the names of the movements, we would not be able to say really that the quartet was not one by Haydn.  Listening is another matter with Dvorak employing the longer, soaring melodies of the Romantics as opposed to the shorter motifs of the Classicists. Coincidentally, both quartets both make references to birds.  The Haydn of course has the lark singing away at the very beginning of the first movement.  Dvorak saves his bird, the American scarlet tanager, for the third, Scherzo movement.  The scarlet tanager used to wake Dvorak up very early in the morning when he lived for a summer in Iowa in the United States and he would curse it as that “damned bird”.  That damned bird has now achieved immortality!

Our musicians for the November concert are the award-winning Echo Quartet from the Shanghai Conservatory Middle School.  As all regular attendees of the Glam Chamber Music Series know, these middle schoolers are young masters who play at an absolutely professional level far beyond their years.

If you would like to familiarize yourselves with the music before the concert, please check out these Youku sites:

Haydn:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4uYxn1M_O-4

Dvorak:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_b_rwtDlUXA

I look forward to seeing you all on November 26th for this exciting performance!

Bob Martin

Shanghai Under Japanese Occupation: Two Mothers’ Stories

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A unique meeting between the authors of two moving books based on their mothers’ contrasting experiences of the Japanese occupation of Shanghai. Betty Barr will discuss Ruth’s Record, an annotated version of her American mother’s wartime diary, which provides a gripping account of life in Lunghua internment camp. Keiko Itoh’s My Shanghai 1942-46 is a sensitively-observed, fictionalised account of her Christian Japanese mother’s struggle to come to terms with her privileged position in a city at war, and the growing conflict between her loyalty to her country and her own values. Moderated by Duncan Hewitt.

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Loeffler, Klughardt & Holbrooke: All About September’s Chamber Music Concert

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Usually, we are treated to music by the magnificent students from the Shanghai Conservatory. From time to time, however, the professors come out to give us a rare treat. September 24th at 4pm at Glam will be such a moment (tickets and program below!).

Playing will be Jensen Lam, Associate Dean at the Conservatory and head of the Viola and Chamber Music Departments. He is the very founder of L’Ensemble les Amis (ELA) and the driving inspiration behind this Crystal Chamber Music series at M on the Bund. Jensen is an award-winning and internationally recognized musician and for ten years the principal violist of the Spanish National Radio Television Symphony, the pre-eminent orchestra of Spain.

We welcome back Juan Manuel García-Cano, Professor of Oboe at Suzhou University. Juan-Manuel is an award-winning musician as well and has played with major orchestras all over Europe and in Asia.

Joining us for the first time is Qiuning Huang who also teaches at the Shanghai Conservatory of Music. Qiuning studied at both the Shanghai Conservatory and at the prestigious New England Conservatory of Music in Boston. Also an award winning musician, Qiuning is frequently in demand in China and at music festivals across the United States.

The combination of Piano, Viola and Oboe is not common in the world of chamber music. It really does not appear until the last half of the 19th Century. But the sensual combination of these sounds makes for wonderful listening. We will hear three masterpieces from three composers who were famous in their day and, while no longer household names, continue to appear regularly in chamber music programs.

All three works we will hear have been inspired by poetry. The synthesis of music and poetry was very much in favor in the late 19th and early 20th centuries continuing an aesthetic trend that had been largely inspired by Franz Liszt and his thirteen Symphonic Poems.

The first work is Charles Martin Loeffler’s (1861-1935) evocative and languorous Two Rhapsodies for Piano, Oboe and Viola. The two movements, The Pond and The Bagpipe are inspired by Maurice Rollinat, a French poet and singer of the Decadent Movement. He sang his songs in cabarets such as the famous Le Chat Noir in Montmartre. (You can find the poem L’etang in French here: https://www.poemhunter.com/poem/l-tang-2/ ). With this music, we are clearly in the sumptuous sound world of Cesar Frank and Gabriel Faure with exotic hints of Debussy and Ravel. Loeffler, a violinist, was born in Berlin but claimed to be Alsatian because of his dislike of Prussian authorities. He moved to America and ended up sharing the Concertmaster position at the Boston Symphony Orchestra. He was highly regarded as a composer with his works being conducted by Richard Strauss and Toscanini. Highly cultured with refined taste, Loeffler was friends with the likes of Faure, Busoni, Gershwin and John Singer Sargent whose portrait of Loeffler I will show at the concert.

The late Romantic English composer, Joseph Holbrooke (1878-1958), would likely be much more famous today if he had not had such a difficult, hypersensitive personality. He became increasingly dismissive and contemptuous of both his audiences and critics and they eventually turned away from him. However, he left behind a formidable body of work that is gradually finding its way back into the repertory.   Holbrooke’s frequent poetic muse was the American, Edgar Allen Poe. Holbrooke wrote over thirty pieces of music, from large symphonic works to piano solos, inspired by the macabre American writer. We will hear his Fairyland based on Poe’s deliciously obscure poem of the same name. You can read it here: http://www.online-literature.com/poe/2161/).

Finally, We will hear the somewhat earlier German Romantic composer August Klughardt (1847-1902). He studied piano as a child and eventually became music director in a number of cities around Germany including Weimar where he befriended Franz Liszt. After that meeting Klughardt became of advocate of the New German Music movement as typified by Liszt and Wagner, although Klughardt‘s personal style retained some the classical elements of the music like that of Brahms and Schumann. The work we will hear is a suite of fantasies inspired by Reed Songs, a group of five poems by the famous Austrian Romantic poet Nikolaus Lenau. Lenau had also been a muse for Liszt in his Mephisto Waltzes. In these fantasies we can clearly hear the influence of Liszt and Wagner. You can read Lenau’s Reed Songs (Schilflieder) in German and English here: http://www.poemswithoutfrontiers.org/Schilflieder.html

So there we have it! Some very original programming with three professors, three composers and three poets all for the price of one! Mark your calendars. I look forward to seeing you all on September 24th at 4:00 pm at Glam!

Bob Martin

Shanghai Chamber Music Lovers – Shanghai Conservatory’s Atelier of Chamber Music
Crystal Chamber Music    Ensemble Les Amis-Shanghai

Sunday September 24th, 2017 4:00pm
Tickets 85 rmb includes a drink, Students 40 rmb

Charles Martin Loeffler (1861-1935)
Deux Rapsodies Pour Hautbois, Alto et Piano;
勒夫乐:《两首狂想曲》为双簧管、中提琴和钢琴而作
1. L’Étang 池塘
2.La Cornemuse 风笛

Joseph Holbrooke (1878-1958)
Nocturne Fairyland for Oboe, Viola and Piano
霍尔布鲁克:《仙境夜曲》为双簧管、中提琴和钢琴而作

August Klughardt,
“Schilflieder” for Oboe, Viola and Piano Op.28
(nach Gedichten von Lenau)
克鲁格下特:《芦笛曲》为双簧管、中提琴和钢琴而作
(根据雷瑙的诗歌)
1. Langsam, träumerisch 缓慢、如梦似幻
2.Leidenschaftlich erregt 激情的

III. Zart, in ruhiger bewegung 温柔的慢板
1. Feurig 火热的
2. Sehr ruhig 非常安静的

The Performers
Piano: Huang Qiuning 黄秋宁
Oboe: Juan Manuel Garcia-Cano
Viola: Jensen Horn Sin Lam 蓝汉成

Ticket Type Event Details Price
Adult September 24, 2017 at 4:00 PM ¥ 85.00 CNY
Students September 24, 2017 at 4:00 PM ¥ 40.00 CNY

SILF 2017 Podcast: Shanghai Grand, Secrets Behind Making the “Paris of the Orient” Live Again

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Taras Grescoe’s Shanghai Grand brings back to life Shanghai’s International Settlement of the 1930s through the intertwining stories of three extraordinary people: Sir Victor Sassoon, the Sephardic Jewish multimillionaire who built a real-estate empire on the Huangpu mud, the globetrotting flapper Emily “Mickey” Hahn and her lover, Zau Sinmay, a decadent poet who introduced her to the city, opium and all the pleasures of the Orient. Grescoe will share the behind-the-scenes story of what it took to bring these remarkable characters back to life and how he tracked down their homes, haunts and surviving descendants in today’s megacity.

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September Events at M

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Whether chamber music, talks, DJs or film screenings, Glam & M on the Bund in Shanghai welcome the cooler months with the very best of Shanghai.

For tickets to The Last Confucian Liang Shu-Ming with Harvard Professor, Guy Alitto, on September 9th, please click here.

For tickets to A History of Future Cities with journalist, Daniel Brook, on September 30th, please click here.

For tickets to the Autumn Crystal Chamber Music concert, on September 24th, please click here.