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American Hollywood Film Orchestra tours China

Members of the American Hollywood Film Orchestra rehearse at the National Center for the Performing Arts in Beijing. The screen behind them reads, "Classic Oscar: The American Hollywood Film Orchestra New Year's Audio-Visual Concert."

Members of the American Hollywood Film Orchestra rehearse at the National Center for the Performing Arts in Beijing. The screen behind them reads, “Classic Oscar: The American Hollywood Film Orchestra New Year’s Audio-Visual Concert.”  ( Julie Makinen / Los Angeles Times)

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For the last several years, the American Hollywood Film Orchestra, a somewhat motley but certainly merry group of minstrels definitely not from Hollywood, has been staging blitzkrieg winter tours of China.

A violinist

Jack Cobos, a violinist from Georgia, is on his second tour with the group. He’s turning 71 during this trip and previously played with the Chattanooga Symphony.   (Julie Makinen / Los Angeles Times)

The venue

The National Center for the Performing Arts in Beijing, where the American Hollywood Film Orchestra performed, is China’s equivalent of the Met.  (Julie Makinen / Los Angeles Times)

On tour in China

A luggage tag from a member of the American Hollywood Film Orchestra. The group schleps by bus, train and plane to more than a dozen cities from late December to mid-January, offering up crowd-pleasing medleys from movies to Chinese audiences.   (Julie Makinen / Los Angeles Times)

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