The night before last, the audience was deeply shocked by the female conductor Allandale?Parra’s elegant demeanor who is only 33 years old in the Oriental Art Center. When the melody of Korsakov Arabian nights froze in the last sound, the applause of all the audience rang out. Allandale?Parra laid up the baton and accepted the honor with a smile.

The news came out a week before the show: Russian masters and the National Philharmonic Orchestra Music Director Tugan Sokhiev who scheduled to lead a delegation can not arrive in Shanghai on time because his father was serious ill, close to death. Mexican-American female conductor Allandale ? Parra stepped in and assumed responsibility abruptly. Last night, Allandale appeared with neat hair and black dress. The first tune was Chinese works .It was the string orchestra of Deqing Wen which is called The variation of a rose. The female conductor mastered quite in place for the Chinese style melody. Later, She managed the band to act the Cello Concerto of  Dvo?ák, together with the Russian cellist Tatjana Vassiljeva. At the moment of the end of the play, the extremely wonderful "dominant" processing made the audience crazily excited. In the second half performance, the four paragraph stories of the Arabian tales Arabian night started to opened out. As for the fine cooperation between the Grand symphony, violins and other instruments, Allandale handled quite harmonious. Because it was a rescue performance, this show introduced by the Shanghai Conservatory of Music created the first legendary concert by a female conductor with a world-class orchestra in Shanghai.