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The Summer Palace - Concert - Shopping in Beijing | |||||
| Previous Day (Ming Tombs, Great Wall) | |||||
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Friday, June 20. After lunch, we drove to the National Library Concert Hall, where we rehearsed and presented a joint concert with the Beijing May 1st Symphony Orchestra of the Beijing Broadcasting Radio Station. This is a "community orchestra" with several conductors. We had a pretty good audience. After dinner we went to the Beijing equivalent of "5th Avenue" or the Ginza and spent an hour shopping. Very large modern (and usually familiar) shops. It has been very grey in Beijing, and this evening we had light showers. It cooled things off some. | |||||
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| Popular Movie in China, too... | |||||
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| PYA Rehearses. | |||||
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| The May 1st Orchestra Rehearses... | |||||
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| Bilingual
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| Photo Shoot with all the conductors and local civic officials | |||||
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| The drive to the shopping area took us through some interesting neighborhoods. | |||||
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| Olympic countdown | Mighty
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Tomorrow, Tiananmen Square, the Forbidden City, and more! | |||||
