Music festival: Shanghai sings the '60s' praises

Russian pianist Daniil Trifonov will perform at the Shanghai's annual Music in the Summer Air festival. [Photo provided to China Daily]

Among the others performing at the festival is the band Hec & Pascal set up by Japanese film director Shunji Iwai in 2013.

Iwai has a big fan base in China, and his movies Love Letter (1995), All About Lily Chou-Chou (2001) and Suwaroteiru (1996) have a large following.

Iwai, who started his career directing music videos, not only directs and writes scripts but even scores music for his movies.

Hec & Pascal features a violin, a piano, a guitar, a cello and vocals.

The band will play music from Iwai's movies on July 6 at the Shanghai Symphony Hall.

A musical tribute to Andy Warhol will be presented by pop musician Michael Dean Wareham and his wife Britta Phillips.

The work was commissioned by the Andy Warhol Museum in 2010 when Wareham and his wife were told to create an album to accompany Warhol's screen tests featuring Lou Reed, Nico and Edie Sedgwick.

Titled 13 Most Beautiful: Songs for Andy Warhol's Screen Tests, the album consists of 21 tracks, including several remixes. It's heavily influenced by the sound of the Velvet Underground, the band Warhol managed.

The screen tests were done between 1964 and 1966, when Warhol did almost 500 of them on famous and anonymous visitors to his studio The Factory in New York.

Warhol used a stationary, silent Bolex camera loaded with 100-foot rolls of black-and-white 16-millimeter film.