It had been 35 years since the Boston Symphony Orchestra paid China another visit. Jointed hand with Charles Dutoit, Boston Symphony Orchestra had presented a dreamlike music festival in Shanghai Oriental Art Center.

　　The opening stroke directly, lifted the audience with its determinative and powerful chords. The overture of Ruslan and Lyudmilla from Mikhail Glinka, father of Russian folk music was bright and broad, noble and enthusiastic as well. A prefect combination of the neat and agile conducting style of Dutoit, with the puritan like self-disciplined noble quality of Boston Symphony Orchestra, created an overflowing of happiness yet enough compactness, leaving audience with a scene of thousands of layers of fireworks in the dark night.

　　‘Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini’from Rachmaninov, as played by pianist Behzod Abduraimov and Boston Symphony Orchestra was the focal point in the first half of the concert. Abduraimov’s performance added no over hue, and he played without any arrogant virtuoso. Through its freshness and vitality, audience had more room to fancy and could not help of doing that. It was certain that he‘compounded’the heft and down-to-earth feature in Russian folk music with his plain yet vigor movement, and spread a strong flavor of the times in a tight yet stretching manner. At the 18th variation, with the appearance of heart attractive‘Andante cantabile’, the piano stroke clearly and transparently, accompanied by the Strings, the heat was built up gradually and the music was luxuriant yet subtle. The charming co-operation between the piano and the orchestral instruments succeeded in bring forward the artistic individualism of Rachmaninov, a fanatic romantic maestro.

　　As the very first American symphony orchestra who visited China after the official establishment of Sino-US relations, Boston Symphony Orchestra had in no doubt added a memorable brush into the Chinese music life. In 1979 when China opened its door, Chinese audience who had been sieged for so long, had finally got a chance to appreciate real western symphony orchestra in a close distance. And this was indeed a magnificent event and a bless. After 35 years, with the revisit of Boston Symphony Orchestra to China, and the recap of‘Symphonie Fantastique’from Berlioz, a piece that had been played during their first visit to China, it sent out a strong historical stoke. Charles Dutoit, who excels in conducting French works, had ingeniously interpreted this‘Symphonie Fantastique’. In his precise body languages, one witnessed the prefect expression of lyricism of romantic symphony and the dramatization of romantic literature. The orchestra was like an old-fashioned American automobile, in spit of the replacement of the old members by the new, its determination, strict spirits were never lessened but more enhanced. It spoke for itself the history of a veteran symphony orchestra. Passionate as Dutoit and firm as Boston Symphony Orchestra, the perfect combination of both had endowed this French orchestra with rapid changing situations and a vivid performance of a chameleon like light fantasy. The expanded bands with two harps had enriched the orchestra with brand-new sound effects. With music, it depicted the inner loneliness of the romantic artist and his dreamy fantasy. With music, it reflected a masterpiece constructed with poem and literature. This concert is in no doubt, a historical fantasy of music.