In 1973, a series of concerts broke through a Cold War-era Bamboo Curtain. Amid rising tensions with the People's Republic, will we ever see that kind of gesture again?
The People’s Daily ran a front-page article with a photograph of all 130 members of the Philadelphia entourage. American diplomats in China fired off cables to colleagues in Washington, D.C., declaring the tour a huge geopolitical success., was in the audience for one of the Shanghai performances, and the concert left an indelible mark. At the time, she was 24 and assigned by the government to work as an accompanist for the Shanghai Lyric Opera.
Yu had been given a ticket to the concert, but Wang had to sneak in. “I wasn’t the only one,” she told me recently. Without a seat, she had to wedge herself between her seated friends. What Wang recalled of the first piece —by Respighi — was the sound of the timpani. “Wow,” she said, summoning up a memory of the instrument’s rumble. After the piece, an usher realized she didn’t have a seat and threw her out of the concert hall.
Then came the pandemic. And rising military threats over Taiwan. And more revelations about the treatment of Uyghur Muslims in Xinjiang. And the crackdown on protests in Hong Kong. And the spy balloon. And on and on and on.Because of China’s previous zero-COVID policy, theto commemorate the 50th anniversary.
. He said the orchestra had just arrived in Shanghai and he wanted to stretch his legs. He went for a stroll with Harold C. Schonberg, the music critic for the New York Times, and Kati Marton, a reporter for WCAU . They were walking under the sycamore trees in the old French Concession when they heard the sound of a violin coming from a balcony. De PasqualeDe Pasquale didn’t speak Chinese; the boy spoke no English. But they both spoke music.
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