“It was a marvelous experience ... the intensity of the training was just tremendously impressive. Never seen anything like it before. ... It made me very happy. Very happy.”

“Very interesting the way it [classical Chinese instruments and the orchestra] blended. ... The precision of the music was just tremendous.”

“The first several performances were so different and so striking, that they just kind of burned into my mind. And I loved those.”

“I enjoyed the comments that were made by the healing of music. Because we have run across that in other areas in this country. ... It’s just marvelous. And the history of has happened to the ancient Chinese history, and their growth, and it has been abandoned in a lot of the cases—very sad.”