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tutti world youth music+ beijing
Music in the soul can be heard by the universe.
-Lao Tzu
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Outline of itinerary
last updated 12 December 2011DATE | 
| MORNING 0830 - 1230 | AFTERNOON 1330 - 1630 | EVENING 1800> |
Day 1
Sat 6 July
| Arrive.
All groups must arrive in Beijing prior to 1600 on this day.
Inclusive land package meals commence with the Welcome Dinner this night. | Arrive.
All groups must arrive in Beijing prior to 1600 on this day.Inclusive land package meals commence
with dinner this night. Group Directors'/Chef de Mission meeting | Welcome Dinner
including '
Meet the Faculty' performance |
Day
2
Sun 7 July
| Master
Classes | Visit
Tian An
Men Square & Forbidden City | Shopping at Wangfujing Street |
Day
3
Mon 8 July
| Master
Classes | Master
Classes or
Concert 1 rehearsal | Concert 1 |
Day 4
Tues 9 July
| Master Classes | Shopping
at Silk Market | Acrobatic Show | Day 5
Wed 10 July | Laoshe Teahouse
special private performance | Master Classes or
Concert 2 rehearsal | Concert 2 |
Day 6
Thurs 11 July
| Master Classes | Hutong Tour | Grand Concert including invited groups, combined tutti ensembles and massed
choir performances |
Day 7
Fri 12 July
| Tour to
Great Wall including choir performance on the Wall | Final shopping at Silk Market or similar | Farewell Dinner including 'bye bye beijing' performances |
Day 8
Sat 13 July
| Depart or side trip. Inclusive land package meals finish with breakfast
this morning. | Depart or side trip | Depart or side trip |
Itinerary for tutti
world youth music Beijing
As at 12 December 2011 B-Breakfast L-Lunch D-Dinner indicate meals included in the 7 night land packageThis itinerary is for the music stream of the event. Other streams have separate inclusions when
musicians have Master Classes and will be detailed to groups.
Day 1
Saturday 06 July ( D )
( Meals included in the package commence with the Welcome Dinner this evening. Any
meals prior to this are outside of the package and at group's expense.). All groups must arrive in Beijing prior to 1600 on
this day.Arrive in Beijing. Transfer to hotel. All groups must
arrive in Beijing prior to 1600 on this day. Late afternoon:Group
Directors'/Chef de Mission meeting
Evening: Welcome Banquet including 'Meet the faculty'
performance. Day 2
Sunday 07 July ( BLD )Morning: Master Classes Afternoon: Tour to Tiananmen Square & Forbidden
City 
Tiananmen Square in the centre of Beijing is said
to be the biggest square in the world. It is 880 meters from north to south, and 500 meters from east to west, with total
area of 440,000 square meters and can hold one million people. The Tiananmen Gate Tower sits at the north, the Five-Star Red
Flag flies high on the square, the Monument to the People's Heroes dominates the centre, the Great Hall of the People is to
the east and the Museum of the Chinese Revolution and the Museum of Chinese History to the west. Inside the Chinese Revolutionary
Museum are a lot of material objects, pictures, books and models to present the development of modern China. The Chinese History
Museum shows a large number of cultural relics illustrating the long history and culture of China from 1,700,000 years ago
to 1921 when the last emperor left the throne. The Chairman Mao Memorial Hall and the Qianmen gate, sit in the south of the
square. Tens of thousands of people, both local and tourists, visit daily.
 Forbidden City
Lying at the centre of Beijing, the Forbidden City, called Gu Gong, in Chinese, was the
imperial palace during the Ming and Qing dynasties. Now known as the Palace Museum, it is to the north of Tiananmen Square.
Rectangular in shape, it is the world's largest palace complex and covers 74 hectares. Surrounded by a six metre deep moat
and a ten metre high wall are 9,999 buildings. The wall has a gate on each side. Opposite the Tiananmen Gate, to the north
is the Gate of Devine Might (Shenwumen), which faces Jingshan Park. The distance between these two gates is 960 metres, while
the distance between the gates in the east and a west wall is 750 metres. The Forbidden City is divided into two parts. The
southern section or the Outer Court was where the emperor exercised his supreme power over the nation. The northern section
or the Inner Court was where he lived with his royal family. Until 1924 when the last emperor of China was driven from the
Inner Court, fourteen emperors of the Ming dynasty and ten emperors of the Qing dynasty had reigned here. Having been the
imperial palace for some five centuries, it houses numerous rare treasures and curiosities although most of the Treasure was
spirited out of the country to Taiwan by the retreating Kuomintang forces in 1949. Listed by UNESCO as a World Cultural Heritage
Site in 1987, the Palace Museum is now one of the most popular tourist attractions worldwide.
Evening:
Shopping at Wangfujing Street
Wangfujing Street dates back to the Yuan Dynasty (1271-1368) and has been China's most
famous commercial street since 1949. It has attracted a raft of multinational corporations, famous chain stores and international
management groups after undergoing three major upgrades over the past 20 years. Wangfujing, now considered the central heart
of the city, is a fairly long street. A walk from end to end would take you about 30 minutes, and that's without looking
at any shops. The street has two major shopping malls, one of which, Oriental Plaza, sprawls a further 2 blocks to the
east (and another 15 minute walk). Wangfujing street is also home to a number of large department stores, souvenir stores,
and whole side streets full of food stalls, Chinese painting stores and other goodies.
Day 3
Monday 08 July （BLD
）Morning: Master Classes
Afternoon: Master
Classes or Concert 1 performers' rehearsal
Evening: Concert
1
Participating groups will perform their selected pieces for fellow participants.
Day
4
Tuesday 09 July ( BLD ) Morning: Master Classes Afternoon:Shopping
at Silk Market (Xiushui Market/Street)
The Silk Market is
one of the famous markets in Beijing. It attracts domestic and foreign tourists with a huge selection of garments of every
description, bags, jewellery, IT items, manchester and souvenirs all at bargain prices. The first thing to note about
Beijing's Silk Street is that it is not actually a street, rather it is a giant four floored indoor market. The second thing
to remember is that very little of what you see on the shelves is actually anywhere remotely close to being genuine. The
fun of the place doesn't come in searching for the perfect bag or the best looking shirt, instead, it comes in the haggling.
The golden rule at Xishui is that no price is fixed. The average sale begins with the Chinese salesgirl quoting a ridiculously
inflated price. Customer and vendor then barter away until a price is reached, often one that bares no resemblance to the
initial quote. - and the more you haggle the better the bargain! The Silk Market used to be a wholesale market where businessmen
from Eastern European countries purchased clothes, and all business was conducted in English and Russian. Today, the Silk
Market is a tourist spot where people speaking many languages go shopping, both wholesale and retail. Evening:Acrobatic
Show
In China, acrobats are revered much as prima ballerinas or opera singers are revered in
the West, and it takes years of rigorous training to achieve the excellence demanded by this ancient art form. Children hoping
to become acrobats begin their training as young as four or five years old. Specific training with an acrobat troupe
may begin by the age of eight. The basics - balancing, tumbling, dancing, flexibility, and strength are taught in the first
two years, and students spend the next three to five years perfecting specific acts. Eventually, they will do their
first performances when they reach the age of sixteen or seventeen. You will certainly be amazed at their feats of
balance and strength.
Day 5
Wednesday 10 July ( BLD ) Morning:
Laoshe Tea House special private performance
 Founded in 1988, Lao She Tea House was named after Mr. Lao She, a famous artist in China,
and Tea House, one of his famous novels. The teahouse provides an antique-flavor, Beijing-styled environment, where you can
watch wonderful performances by celebrities from folk arts and drama on any given day while enjoying famous tea and palace
snacks. The show for tutti world youth music beijing participants is
a special private one and the performances have been selected from the range available so that only the best will be seen.
Numerous celebrities and more than 2 million Chinese and foreign tourists have visited Lao She Teahouse since it was founded.
It has been a window for exhibiting the national culture and a bridge that connects China with the world.
Afternoon: Master
Classes or Concert 2 performers' rehearsal
Evening: Concert
2
Participating groups will perform their selected pieces
for fellow participants.
Day 6
Thursday 11 July ( BLD )
Morning:
Master Classes
Afternoon: Tour to Hutong
A hutong is a unique form of community that exists only in China. If you are fed up with high buildings
and wide streets, then enter Beijing's hutongs. Here, you will find "Hutong Culture" and "Courtyard Culture".
"Hutong" literally means a small street or a lane between two courtyards, although the word can also mean a community
within the city consisting of hutongs and residences. There are thousands of hutongs in Beijing City. Most of them were built
in the Yuan, Ming and Qing Dynasty (1271-1911). Every hutong has a name. Some hutongs have had only one name but others have
had more than five names in the past. Some got their names from places such as Inner Xizhimen Hutong; some from plants such
as Liushu (Willow) Hutong; some from directions such as Xi (West) hongmen Hutong; some from Beijing idioms such as Yizi (Beijing
local people call soap as yizi) Hutong; some from good words such as Xiqing (Happy) Hutong; some from markets for business
such as Yangshi (Sheep Market) Hutong; some from temples such as Guanyinsi (Kwan-yin Temple) Hutong, and some are even from
the names of common people such as Mengduan Hutong. The oldest hutong in Beijing is called Sanmiao Street. It has been there
for more than 900 years! The longest is Dongxi Jiaomin Lane. The total length of it is 6.5 kilometres. The shortest one had
a name of Yi Chi Street because it was only a little more than ten meters long. Usually most of Beijing's hutongs are straight.
However, if you enter Jiudaowan Hutong, you will probably get lost as you have to turn corners 19 times.
Evening: Farewell Concert
A surprise......indeed! Includes
performances by combined tutti ensembles and massed choir performance.
Day
7
Friday 12 July ( BLD )
Morning: Tour to the Great Wall INCLUDES
Massed Choir perfomance on the Wall.
The Great Wall
To the northwest
and north of Beijing, a huge, serrated wall zigzags its way to the east and west along the undulating mountains. This is the
Great Wall. UNESCO listed the Great Wall of China, one of the greatest wonders of the world, as a World Heritage site
in 1987. Just like a gigantic dragon, the Great Wall winds up and down across deserts, grasslands, mountains and plateaus
stretching approximately 6,700 kilometres (4,163 miles ) from east to west of China. With a history of more than 2000 years,
some of the sections of the great wall are now in ruins or even entirely disappeared. However, it is still one of the most
appealing attractions owing to its architectural grandeur and historical significance. The Great Wall was originally built
in the Spring, Autumn, and Warring States Periods as a defensive fortification by the three states: Yan, Zhao and Qin. The
Great Wall went through constant extensions and repairs in later dynasties. In fact, it began as independent walls for different
states when it was first built, and did not become the "Great" wall until the Qin Dynasty. Emperor Qin Shihuang
succeeded in his effort to have the walls joined together to fend off the invasions from the Huns in the north after the unification
of China. Since then, the Great Wall has served as a monument of the Chinese nation throughout history. You will be astonished
at its granduer and wonder just how they managed to build such a huge structure.
Afternoon: Final shopping spree.
Evening: Farewell
Dinner. Includes performances by faculty and selected students or groups. **Depending
upon airline schedules some groups may depart Beijing late this night or very early the next morning Day 8
Saturday 13 July (B)
( Meals included in the package finish with breakfast this
morning. Any meals required after this are outside of the package and at group's expense. )
Departure
from Beijing or commencement of side tours to other cities or other extensions. Land package inclusions:
Issuance of official invitation
for visa application.
Pre purchase of Chinese SIM cards so parents can contact travelers on numbers known before
travel
Musicians /choristers / dancers / teachers / conductors / managers - Hotel accommodation at minimum 3* standard
twin share rooms. Single room accommodation for teachers / conductors / managers is available at an additional cost.
Triple share room at no extra cost. Where possible and depending on hotel availability, internet access will be provided to staff room and if possible at
no cost.
Parents / supporters
- Hotel accommodation at 4* standard.
Typically twin share rooms for parents / supporters. Single room accommodation
is available at an additional cost. Triple share room at no extra cost. Child under 12 sharing a room with parent/s receives a discount.
Three meals daily as indicated in itinerary
(with certain amount of soft drinks ) including a Welcome Banquet and a
Farewell Dinner. All breakfasts have a selection of Western food. Other meals may be either Chinese or
Western or Chinese/Western .
‘Meet and greet’ at airport by China Stars staff/representative and an
individual team guide/translator attached to student group or parent group as required
High quality coaches for
transfers on arrival and departure and for scheduled transfers during the event. Coaches may be shared
between groups.
5 master
classes approximately 4 hours each. Master classes include sectionals, individual discipline, working with guest conductors.
Full concert rehearsal followed
by a performance of own chosen repertoire in a formal concert setting for fellow attendees
One other peer concert as audience
Farewell Concert featuring faculty, visiting musicians and ensembles and Chinese cultural performance
Transfers
and entrance fees to Acrobatic show, Laoshe Teahouse Show, transfers to all scheduled shopping excursions to Silk Market (
or similar ), Wangfujing St.( or similar ).
Identification and emergency contact tags
in English and Chinese
Sightseeing program ( including entrance fees ) to The Great Wall, Tiananmen Square, Forbidden City, Hutong Tour
Hire fees for all necessary facilities, venues, technical staff for the conduct of the event as scheduled
Any
fees/gratuities payable to Chinese drivers/guides, any services, any meals or drinks provided for Chinese drivers/ guides
at event venues or functions
Commemorative t-shirt,
event program, notebook, pen, bag
On site health professional at event venue
Land taxes payable in China
Exclusions: any costs involved with the following
Compulsory top level travel and medical insurance
Meals outside of the package ( commences Saturday
9th dinner, ends Saturday 16th breakfast )
Drinks outside of those supplied as above
Phone calls, pre
purchase of Chinese SIM cards, laundry or any other personal expenditure or in room costs, transfers to shopping on free nights
Free
Great memories!
reach out - build bridges©
tutti
world youth music beijing international
community outreach
program in association with Griffith
University Queensland
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