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Beethoven in Beijing: Stories from the Philadelphia Orchestra's Historic Journey to China

By Jennifer Lin, Yannick Nézet-Séguin (Foreword by)
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By Jennifer Lin, Yannick Nézet-Séguin (Foreword by)
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In 1973, Western music was banned in the People’s Republic of China. But in a remarkable breakthrough cultural exchange, the Philadelphia Orchestra conducted a tour of closed-off China, becoming the first American orchestra to visit the communist nation. Jennifer Lin’s Beethoven in Beijing provides a fabulous photo-rich oral history of this boundary-breaking series of concerts the orchestra performed under famed conductor Eugene Ormandy.

Lin draws from interviews, personal diaries, and news ...

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HistoryUnited States HistoryUnited States History - Northeastern & Middle Atlantic RegionNortheastern & Middle Atlantic Region - History - General & Miscellaneous