Richard Clayderman, dubbed the "piano prince" of France, collected
donations worth more than 900,000 yuan (129,986 U.S. dollars) from a
concert in the northwestern Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region on Thursday. Companies
and individual audience members donated money, medicine and materials
at the event in the region's capital. The donations will be given to the quake-battered Sichuan Province through the China Red Cross Foundation.
Clayderman was scheduled to give 10 concerts in China from June 2 to
July 2, including two in Sichuan. He decided to cancel the Sichuan
events after the quake struck the province on May 12. Urumqi, Xi'an, Nanning and other cities are also on his agenda.
Richard Clayderman
