Visiting performers ofWesternclassical music, from the ChicagoSymphonytoGerman violinist Anne-SophieMutter, have been the mostpopular attractions, according to the center's president Chen Ping.
Others honored by the organization, which runs programs focused on security, cooperation, economics, the environment and which centers on the Middle East, Africa and Asia, were Unilever CEO Paul Polman and violinist Anne-Sophie Mutter.
With the help of his handlers in New York, he has learned how other classical musicians developed and exploited their star power, how Horowitz and Bernstein, Herbert von Karajan and Anne-Sophie Mutter and Yo-Yo Ma took the extra steps that provided more celebrity and greater fees.