CBS REPORTS: THE BOSTON GOES TO CHINA (TV)

Summary

One in this series of irregularly scheduled in-depth reports. This program documents the Boston Symphony Orchestra's March 1979 tour of China, the first major cultural exchange between the U.S. and China since normalization of relations. Orchestral music conducted by Seiji Ozawa is excerpted throughout and includes works by Tchaikovsky, Berlioz, Gershwin, Beethoven, and Sousa. Concertmaster Joseph Silverstein meets with U.S. Ambassador Leonard Woodcock and with the recently freed concertmaster of the Peking Symphony. Also includes a U.S. fashion show, a visit to the Great Wall, excerpts from a Chinese revolutionary symphony, and Ozawa's visit to his childhood home in Peking. Includes commercials.

Details

• NETWORK: CBS
• DATE: April 27, 1979 Friday 10:00 PM
• RUNNING TIME: 0:56:48
• COLOR/B&W: Color
• CATALOG ID: T79:0386
• GENRE: Public affairs/Documentaries
• SUBJECT HEADING: China, People's Repub. - Description and travel; China, People's Repub. - Foreign relations - U S; Fashion - 1979; Orchestral music; U S - Foreign relations - China, People's Repub.; U S - Officials - Talk/Interviews; Asian American Pacific Islanders Collection
• SERIES RUN: CBS - TV series, 1959-
• COMMERCIALS: N/A

CREDITS

• Howard Stringer … Executive Producer, Director, Writer
• Andrew Lack … Producer, Director, Writer
• Maurice Murad … Associate Producer
• Ed Bradley … Reporter
• Seiji Ozawa … Conductor
• John Philip Sousa … Composer
• George Gershwin … Composer
• Peter Ilyitch Tchaikovsky … Composer
• Ludwig Van Beethoven … Composer
• Hector Berlioz … Composer
• Boston Symphony Orchestra … Symphony Orchestra
• Joseph Silverstein
• Leonard Woodcock