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27 / 06 / 2010 - David

Stephen mentioned our Beijing concert in his blog, but I wanted to share a rather nice moment in the concert. There was a family sitting in the second row with two young boys, and when Chris did his Mandarin welcome to the audience after the first song the younger of the two boys was utterly amazed, and sat with his mouth wide open nudging his older brother. Chris seems to have become our Chinese language expert, remembering the introduction from our previous trip to the Far East in 2008.

We are now in the city of Shenzhen in southern China, where we performed this evening in the city’s state-of-the-art concert hall. Like Shanghai, Shenzhen has seen a huge amount of new building in recent years, and the cityscape is incredible. We did manage to get back to the hotel to see the England-Germany match from South Africa. This was not the result we wanted to say the least. Paul received an email earlier today from Daniel Knauft from ensemble Amarcord, the vocal group who we saw recently at their wonderful festival in Leipzig. Their concert schedule today allowed them to see the whole match, whereas we missed the opening (and the first of Germany’s four goals). They wished us good luck in our concert, but not in the football!

We are off to Guangzhou tomorrow for the last of our Chinese concerts.

P.S. I would like to thank the couple in Taipei who gave me a lovely present of an ink stamp bearing the Chinese version of my name. It was a very sweet gift, but I do not have contact details to write to say thank you.