“It was wonderful. The electricity of the dance was just spectacular. ... It created a lot of energy—I didn’t feel it, I saw it. ... It was just the movement of all the dancers themselves.”
“The two-string [erhu] ... was very serene. It made you think, as she [erhu soloist] was actually playing. And it was spectacular that she was able to coordinate that with the pianist.”
“I learned something that I didn’t otherwise know about 5,000 years of Chinese history.”