THE two public benefit series at the Shenzhen Concert Hall will bring two concerts and a lecture to the venue this month. Booking is required for the concerts. Golden sound of the organ On May 12, Hong Kong pipe organists Chiu Siu-ling and her son Eric Fan will perform alongside young talent Wang Jiayang. The program will include Elgar’s “Pomp and Circumstance Marches, Op. 39, No. 1,” Bach’s “Passacaglia and Fugue in C Minor, BWV 582,” “The Flight of the Bumblebee” by Rimsky-Korsakov, the second and fourth movements of “The Yellow River Piano Concerto,” and the piano composition “Red Lilies Crimson and Bright” by Wang Jianzhong, inspired by a Northwest China folk song. Chiu was an organ lecturer at the Music Department of the Chinese University of Hong Kong and the Hong Kong Baptist University. She has performed across North America and China, promoting organ music to the public. Fan, a talented young musician, has frequently performed his own works or adaptations for global audiences. Wang is a cellist with the youth orchestra attached to the Shenzhen Symphony Orchestra. Time: 3 p.m., May 12 Tickets: 10-30 yuan ‘Goldberg Variations’ magic Consisting of 30 variations on one aria, lasting over an hour without a break, and hundreds of years old, it’s also one of the biggest challenges for pianists and harpsichordists. Does this piece sound likely to enjoy an unstoppable surge of popularity? You’d better believe it because Johann Sebastian Bach’s keyboard marathon known as the “Goldberg Variations” has never been more often heard and loved than it is today. On May 19, Wang Jiyan, a renowned scholar with the Chinese National Academy of Arts, will share his unique insights on Bach and his monumental “Goldberg Variations” with the audience. Wang aptly names his lecture “Nicht Bach! Meer sollte er hei?en” (“Not a brook, you’d call his works the sea”), a quote from Beethoven showing the maestro’s admiration for Bach. While Bach himself merely said that the music was “prepared for the soul’s delight of music lovers,” everyone will read something different into the “Goldberg Variations.” We can delve into its philosophies or simply enjoy its flood of inspiration. Time: 3 p.m., May 19 Tickets: Free Piano and strings Pianist Liu Keting, violinist and violist Yu Xiao, and cellist Yao Jian will perform a chamber music concert alongside talented students from the Southern University of Science and Technology on May 25. The program will include fan favorites such as Elgar’s “Salut d’amour” (“Love’s Greeting”), Paganini’s “Cantabile,” the first movement of Rachmaninoff’s “Suite No. 1, Op. 5,” also known as “Barcarolle,” “Hungarian Dance, No. 5” by Brahms, Chopin’s “Waltzes, Op. 69,” and Piazzolla’s “Libertango.” Time: 3 p.m., May 25 Tickets: Free Booking: WeChat account “szyinyuet” Venue: Shenzhen Concert Hall, Futian District (深圳音樂廳) Metro: Line 3 or 4 to Children’s Palace Station (少年宮站), Exit D (Li Dan) | 