BEIJING (AP) — Fifty years after the Philadelphia Orchestra's history-making visit to China in 1973 that helped build then-fledgling U.S.-China ties, Davyd Booth hopes for a repeat performance.
The orchestra's trip comes at a fraught time as the world's two largest economies feud over trade, technology, defense and human rights.
Booth noted that a number of Chinese play for the Philadelphia Orchestra, and some of the world's top soloists are Chinese.
Booth remembers the trip he made as a 23-year-old violinist, when then-music director Eugene Ormandy brought the Philadelphia Orchestra to China at the request of President Richard Nixon, who a year earlier made his own historic visit to the country.
Since then, the full orchestra has made 10 more trips to China and is planning to come again next year.
Persons:
Davyd Booth, ” Booth, Joe Biden, Xi, Booth, ”, “, Eugene Ormandy, Richard Nixon, Yang Wanming, Caroline Chen
Organizations:
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Locations:
China, U.S, United States, Beijing, San Francisco, Tianjin, Shanghai, Suzhou, America