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Click here for more about the Rochester Oratorio Society's trip to China. Carl Pultz is a former Music Director of WXXI-FM and is now the sound recording engineer for many top classical groups in...
View ArticleNight at the Forbidden City Concert Hall
The Rochester Oratorio Society passed through the Empress's Gate to the Forbidden City in white diesel buses. Carrying black concert clothes and folders, members walked through a tunnel of ancient...
View ArticleClash of the Choirs
Last night the Rochester Oratorio Society sang in the Ninth China International Chorus Festival contest at the Military Concert Hall, a new venue with decent acoustics. Out of forty-seven groups, ROS...
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Market Day
Members of the Rochester Oratorio Society and their families spent a morning at the Panjiayuan Market, the largest flea market in China. I asked some of the singers and their relatives, "What did you...
View ArticleClosing Ceremony
On Monday morning, the Rochester Oratorio Society served as the greeting choir for the closing ceremony of the China International Chorus Festival. During the rehearsal, held backstage about ten...
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Night train to Shanghai
"If China is a dragon, Shanghai is its head." - Deng XiapingThe Rochester Oratorio Society caught an overnight train from Beijing to Shanghai on Monday. After much merriment and a fitful sleep, I woke...
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Old rivals
After two days in Shanghai, I asked members of the Rochester Oratorio Society and their family members, "What's the difference between Beijing and Shanghai?""[Shanghai] is a little more sophisticated...
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Interview with Eric Townell from Shanghai
Click on the attachment to hear an interview with Eric Townell recorded after our last concert in Shanghai.
View ArticleMusic in China
On our last morning in Shanghai, I found myself in the hotel lobby with a dozen or so Rochester singers waiting for the bus to the airport. With our suitcases collected by the glass revolving door,...
View ArticleFrom Park Avenue to the Forbidden City
Still jet-lagged. My body's convinced morning is night. My mind's still racing, thinking, processing. After so much stimulation, I'm starting to crash. I sleep like the dead.read more
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Olympic glory
The most conspicuous performer at the Olympics probably couldn’t run a mile without stopping. The twenty-six year-old Chinese piano star Lang Lang has been prepping for his part in the Games for three...
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Olympics Closing Ceremony
The music heard during this complex bit of political theater intrigued me, especially the techno-pop version of “Greensleeves” accompanying the arrival of a double-decker London bus. Even more...
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Beijing's Bird's Nest saved by Puccini?
The Bird's NestDuring the 2008 Beijing Olympics, China staged eye-popping public ceremonies in the Bird's Nest, an iconic stadium built for the occasion. Last summer, singers in the Rochester Oratorio...
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