The world is “plagued by conflict, with the fight between China and the U.S. part of it,” writes Rong Xiaoqing in last Thursday’s (12/26) Global Times (Beijing, China). “A few days before the New Year, the dark clouds that have been hovering above my heart for a while were lifted by a man named Lawrence Wolfe … the assistant principal bassist of the Boston Symphony Orchestra…. In March 1979, 31-year-old Wolfe went on a tour to China with the BSO…. In 2014, he visited again as part of the BSO’s second China tour. And now, for the third time, he will be there with the orchestra in mid-February…. The desperate thirst for music among the Chinese musicians performing with the orchestra and the Chinese plans to invest in instruments and build concert facilities [in 1979 portrayed] a China very different from the U.S. but eager to embrace the world…. Wolfe told me: ‘I only saw progress, a continuation of our relationship.’ … [Wolfe’s] long timeframe makes the current period of turmoil seem less disturbing…. There is music, the universal language that … ‘will be a big part for healing and reconnection,’ he said.”
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