Chinese Audience: Orchestra and China

chinese audience: We have relationships forged over almost 50 years with the people of China ... that are deeply important to us and we want to continue to develop and nurture those relationships for decades to come, Matias Tarnopolsky, the orchestra's president and CEO, told Xinhua, according to Global Times China. The Philadelphia Orchestra story epitomizes the strengthening of people-to-people connections that China and the United States have seen over the past year. The orchestra, which pioneered cultural exchanges between the United States and China in 1973, has found its music reaching a larger Chinese audience, not only in concert halls, but also in more private settings, such as classrooms and hospitals. While the bilateral relationship is going through some rough patches at the national level, wide-ranging exchanges and cooperation at the subnational level have not been losing steam. Visitors watch the U.S.-born male giant panda Bei Bei at the Smithsonian's National Zoo in Washington D.C., the United States, on Nov. 11, 2019. No matter what the climate externally is, these collaborations continue, Tarnopolsky said. (news.financializer.com). As reported in the news.