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Boston Orchestra returns

The Boston Symphony Orchestra will perform under the baton of Swiss conductor Charles Dutoit at the ongoing China Orchestra Festival. Highlights of the concert will include Mussorgsky's A Night on Bald Mountain and Rachmaninoff's Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini featuring pianist Behzod Abduraimov. The repertoire will also include symphonies of Mahler, Tchaikovsky and Mozart. The orchestra's long-awaited return to China will include performances in Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou, marking the orchestra's first performances in China since its historic 1979 tour as the first US orchestra to visit the country after the establishment of diplomatic relations.

7:30 pm, May 1-2. National Center for the Performing Arts, 2 West Chang'an Avenue, Xicheng district, Beijing. 010-6655-0000.