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Shanghai and Sichuan philharmonic orchestras will stage a joint symphony concert next Thursday for more than 1,000 Shanghai firemen, armed policemen, doctors and nurses who helped rescue efforts in the quake-stricken areas of Sichuan Province.

Liao Dancheng, deputy director of the Sichuan Philharmonic, said the Sichuan musicians were in Shanghai to show gratitude through music to those who had helped the victims of the powerful May 12 earthquake. The concert will be performed by 112 musicians from the Shanghai Philharmonic and 35 from the Sichuan Philharmonic at the Shanghai Oriental Arts Center.