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====Harbin Summer Music Concert====

Harbin Summer Music Concert ('Concert' for short) is a national concert festival, which is held on 6 August every two years for a period of 10~11 days. During the concert, multiple evenings, concert, race and activities are held. The artists come from all over the world.

The 'Harbin Summer Music Month', which was then renamed as 'Harbin Summer Music Concert', was held in August 1958. The first formal Concert was held on 5 August 1961 in Harbin Youth Palace, and kept on every year until 1966 when the [[Cultural Revolution]] started in China.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.artsbird.com/newweb12/artsnews.php?thisid=26163|title=Introduction of Harbin Summer Music Concert|access-date=27 August 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120201005725/http://www.artsbird.com/newweb12/artsnews.php?thisid=26163|archive-date=1 February 2012}}</ref> In 1979, the Concert was recovered and from 1994, it has been held every two years. As a part of 2006 Harbin Summer Music Concert's opening ceremony, a 1,001-piano concert was held in Harbin's Flood memorial square located at the north end of [[Central Street (Harbin)|Central Street]] ({{lang-zh|s=中央大街|hp=Zhōngyāng Dàjiē|links=no}}) on 6 August 2006.<ref>{{cite web|script-title=zh:第28届中国·哈尔滨之夏音乐会琴宝隆之声·千台钢琴演奏会吉尼斯纪录申请过程|url=http://news.sina.com.cn/o/2006-08-10/01489704857s.shtml|script-work=zh:新晚报|publisher=[[Sina Corp|Sina Entertainment]]|access-date=6 February 2014|author=李威 封娇 李木双|date=10 August 2006|language=zh|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140222055948/http://news.sina.com.cn/o/2006-08-10/01489704857s.shtml|archive-date=22 February 2014|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|script-title=zh:"琴宝隆之声"千台钢琴演奏会奏响华彩乐章|url=http://ent.sina.com.cn/y/2006-08-08/14401191418.html/|archive-url=https://archive.today/20140206000802/http://ent.sina.com.cn/y/2006-08-08/14401191418.html/|archive-date=6 February 2014|work=[[Sina Corp|Sina Entertainment]] |access-date=6 February 2014|author=王玮|date=8 August 2006|language=zh}}</ref> Repertoires of the ensemble consisted of ''[[Triumphal March]]'', ''Military March'', ''[[Radetzky March]]'' and famous traditional local song ''On The Sun Island''. This concert set a new Guinness World Record for largest piano ensemble, surpassing the previous record held by German artists in a 600-piano concert.<ref name="english.peopledaily.com.cn"/>
In 2008, the 29th Harbin Summer Music Concert was held on 6 August.
[[File:Harbin Grand Theatre Pano 201609.jpg|center|thumb|1024x1024px|[[Harbin Grand Theatre]], designed by [[MAD Studio]]. Located in Harbin's Songbei District, the opera house is surrounded by wetlands and waterways of Songhua River.]]