A special 50th anniversary concert was held in Beijing on Friday celebrating the Philadelphia Orchestra's 1973 visit to China.

　　It was the first tour to the People's Republic of China made by an American orchestra.

　　Davyd Booth, a violinist with the Philadelphia Orchestra, was on the 1973 trip. At that time, he didn't imagine the orchestra and himself would be so closely connected with China in the following half century and beyond.