Young vocal talents

While leaves fall in autumn, the pure and sprightly voice of children's choir, Les Petits Chanteurs de Saint-Marc, will make the audience blossom with joy. The children's choir, which provided the vocals for the soundtrack of the 2004 film Les Choristes, is on a concert tour across 12 Chinese cities.

Founded in 1986, the French choir is a mixed unit comprising students from 10 to 15 years old. It acquired worldwide recognition with the release of the successful film. More than 2 million CDs of the film's soundtrack have been sold.

The choir's repertoire varies widely from spiritual hymns to classical and contemporary music. Besides songs in the film Les Choristes and in the Broadway classic West Side Story, the choir is ready to get Chinese audiences moving with Michael Jackson's We Are the World and Beatles' Yellow Submarine and Michelle.

The lovely young talents will also put on a musical, The World Tour in 80 Days, dressed in colorful ethnic costumes from around the world.

As the fifth tour across China since its debut in the country in 2005, the choir will sing some Chinese songs, such as The Same Song.

7:30 pm, Oct 19- 20. Forbidden City Concert Hall, inside Zhongshan Park, Beijing. 010-6559-8285.

8 pm, Nov 2 and 3. Opera Hall, Guangzhou Opera House, Exit B1 of Zhujiang New Town subway station, the interchange of subway line 3 and line 5, Guangzhou. 020-3839-2888.