“The music is beautiful. I can pick out the instruments and listen to the artists perform. I can hear the clarinet—very beautiful and the trumpet and the bass and those two instruments in the middle. I don’t know what they are but the traditional Chinese instruments when they play, I can watch them. And it’s very beautiful and fun to watch,” said Mr. Winslow.

“I think that seeing the tradition and the beauty of China is wonderful, it brings peace. I don’t think of China the same way as I did before I started watching,” said Mr. Winslow.

“I think it’s too bad because it’s so beautiful. It’s too bad that they don’t want to share that part of the culture, and let the world see it,” he added.

“I hope it’s never forgotten. I hope that people in China keep their culture because [it’s] beautiful. It’s very lovely. And I would hate it if it was lost to the world. So I’m glad that this performance is keeping it alive. I’m glad that I can experience it and see it and I hope that it grows.”

“I think a lot of it comes from the music. The music was very well written and performed very well. You just get kind of lost in watching the performance of the dancers up on the stage and you’re just kind of drawn into it,” said Ms. Gehmlich, a school teacher.

“When the singer [was singing] and they had the lyrics up on the screen, it was talking about religion. I thought, no, China is communist. They don’t have religion. And then it was explained later that this was before communism, there was religion. So that was nice to know.”

“It’s nice to see that the culture is being brought back and being restored. Get back to when they had their religion,” said Mr. Gehmlich, a project manager.

Ms. Gehmlich observed that modern society has been placing less and less importance on religion.

“There’s a lot of atheism. I think it’s so important that we recognize that there is a God—who we have to answer to ultimately,” she shared.