Music from China combines tradition with modern flair

It would be tough to get more up-to-the-minute than the concert of contemporary Chinese music at the Freer Gallery of Art on Saturday, where four of the six works on the program were written just this year. And it would be equally hard to find such a range of richly imaginative new work -- steeped in tradition yet thoroughly 21st century -- that transcends nationalism but retains, at its heart, a compelling and distinctive Chinese sensibility.