“This was for me just a delightful evening ... Whoever did it, whoever produced this, did a very good job. I am a professor by occupation and I would give very high marks to whoever it is that organized it.”
 

“It’s just a very exciting experience to come to a musical event in which you don’t know quite what you are going to receive and have such an extraordinary variety of performances really—of the orchestra as a whole—special Chinese musicians on the one side, and singers on the other.”