Boston curtain call

Returning to China after a breakthrough tour in 1979, musicians from the Boston Symphony Orchestra are savoring the country's change and continuing enthusiasm for Western music. Chen Nan reports.

Sitting in the lobby of a five-star hotel in Wangfujing, the iconic pedestrian street in the capital, 65-year-old Lawrence Wolfe is watching the stream of cars on Chang'an Avenue flow past at 8:15 am beneath the early-morning sun. Like many foreign visitors in Beijing, Wolfe carries his camera and is ready to head to the Great Wall for a second time.

"I was 31 when I first came here. How time flies! I really enjoy the miraculous architecture. I miss it very much," he says.