Tuning in by moving in

A major classical music institution, the Juilliard School, makes inroads by opening an overseas campus in Tianjin. Chen Nan reports.

The Chinese had not experienced live performances of such songs as Beethoven's Symphony No 3 when the established New York-based performing arts conservatory, the Juilliard School, played in Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou in 1987.

"China was a very different place then," the school's president, Joseph Polisi, recalls.