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Maestro Lorin Maazel leads a performance by the Boston Symphony Orchestra at the Tanglewood Music Center in Lenox Brent Seabrook Womens Jersey , Massachusetts, on Aug 2, 2012. Photo Provided to China Daily
The last time Boston Symphony Orchestra played a concert in China was 35 years ago. It will be back in May. Jack Freifelder traces the journey.


A lot has sure changed since 1979. Tie-dye and bell-bottoms are largely a novelty now, but they were all the rage when the Boston Symphony Orchestra last played a concert in China 35 years ago. Even the iconic Zhongshan suits that dotted the streets in China several decades ago have taken a backseat to more contemporary fashion. But the BSO's Larry Wolf still remembers the fad's heyday well. "I was 31 on the first trip to China," Wolf says in an interview. "I tried to be a tourist and it was all extremely interesting. I remember the streets, a sea of bicycles and the blue Mao jackets that were just everywhere."


"Being an American I was just an object of a positive Corey Crawford Womens Jersey , childlike curiosity," adds Wolf, an assistant principal double bass player with the BSO. "People wondered if I stubbed my toe in New York whether I would feel the same pain they did with a stubbed toe in Beijing. The answer is, of course, yes."


The BSO is set to tour China and Japan later this year with a series of seven concerts over a 10-day period from May 1 to 11, the first trip the BSO has made to China since its historic tour in 1979 under the direction of Japanese conductor Seiji Ozawa.


At the end of the BSO's 2013-14 season Jonathan Toews Womens Jersey , Maestro Lorin Maazel-who first debuted with the BSO in December 1960-will lead the orchestra during this year's trip to China and Japan, which will feature concerts in Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou and Tokyo.


The BSO became the first orchestra from the United States to visit China, following the signing of the Joint Communique on the Establishment of Diplomatic Relations, on Jan 1 Duncan Keith Womens Jersey , 1979.


Boston's main orchestral body plays at Symphony Hall-a building designated a US National Historic Landmark by the US government in 1999-and the company is currently in its 133rd season of performances.


Mark Volpe, the managing director with the BSO, says, "there's a real interest in China and Japan" because the level of music-making there is "incredibly high".


"I've never been to China with the orchestra, so this will be a first for me," Volpe says.


"China is this incredibly interesting place that has opened up Patrick Kane Womens Jersey , and it's always fun to go on tour to see exotic places and play in other halls. You couldn't talk this way 35 years ago."


Volpe, who oversees the activities of the BSO, the Boston Pops Orchestra, the Boston Symphony Chamber Players and the Tanglewood Festival Chorus, has combined his formal training as a musician with a legal background, which has helped him serve as the chief executive of Boston's premier orchestral company.


For some of the musicians this trip will be particularly exciting because "they get to see family" Marian Hossa Jersey , Volpe says.


Jessica Zhou, a Beijing-bred principal harpist with the BSO, says she was aware of the 1979 BSO trip because of an exchange program her mother participated in at the China National Symphony Orchestra.


"I knew that musically it was a big deal at the time, but I'm just surprised the BSO has not been back in so many years," Zhou says.


"In fact my father-in-law, who wasn't even at the BSO concert Gustav Forsling Jersey , had the actual program from 1979. He treasured that program because the concert made such an impact on him."


Zhou, who started studying the harp in Beijing at 9 years old, comes from a family with a long line of musical affinities. Zhou's father was a flutist, and she and her mother shared the same harp teacher at the conservatory in Beijing where Zhou trained as a young girl.


"I came here at 13, but I go back quite often and it's definitely not the same China from 1979," Zhou says.


"Any Western orchestra that comes through draws a lot of attention John Hayden Jersey , so I think it's significant for the BSO to make a presence in China. This trip is going to be a great draw for the Chinese audience, and I think people are very eager to hear the orchestra."


Anthony Fogg, the artistic administrator for the BSO, says finding the right balance for the program in this concert series is a key component of the planning process.


"It's in everyone's interest to get that program right," Fogg says. "I've never been to China, so to a large extent I had to rely on the recommendations of those who have much more experience about the audience's expectations.


"The whole ritual of performance in China is something that's completely new to me. I'm really looking forward to seeing the reaction from the Chinese audiences: how they listen Ryan Hartman Jersey , concert etiquette and how they respond to certain pieces."


Volpe, the BSO's managing director, says he is hopeful the 2014 trip to China and Japan will be a watershed moment for the BSO's touring schedule going forward.


"Thirty-five years was inadvertent, but as China continues to grow, I think it will be on the regular touring schedule," Volpe says. "I'm not saying it will be every year Brandon Saad Jersey , but I'm sure we'll be reaching out to China in a number of ways."



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