Despite efforts by independent retail bakers to increase bread range and quality, the report highlights the strength of both the softgrain and premium white bread markets.

Wutai county has already re-forested a million mou of hillside, and has plans for a further 800,000 mou to be tackled in the immediate future. But there is a long way to go yet before the whole of Wutai is anything like what it was when the huge trees that were cut to make the pillars and beams of temples like Fu Kwang Ssu were still standing.

The Rebbe approached the bima and before responding, sang a nigun that was filled with intense dveykut.

The most immediately engaging work here was Roberto Sierra’s “Güell Concert” (2006). Mr. Sierra uses a medieval Spanish cantiga as the work’s motto, but leaps quickly into modern rhythmic and harmonic complexities.