Categories
Archived
-
Recent Posts
Latest Tweets
- RT @TMCox_runTMC: @sfballet awesome show tonight! #Onegin #standingovation about 9 hours ago from web ReplyRetweetFavorite
- Our final performance of # Onegin begins in an hour! Who's coming? about 13 hours ago from Seesmic ReplyRetweetFavorite
- Your Friday dance dose: a Grand Jeté in super-slowmotion! http://t.co/Wbr8Bc89 about 17 hours ago from web ReplyRetweetFavorite
- @saltandpeppersf It's one of the more unusual compliments we've received, but we're still glad to hear it! :) about 18 hours ago from web in reply to saltandpeppersf ReplyRetweetFavorite
-
Subscribe RSS
Category Archives: All Posts by Matt Naughtin
We’re finished with our performances in Beijing, and the Company has two free days to do some sightseeing and socializing. Sunday: the Forbidden City and the Summer Palace. Monday: the Great Wall, the Ming Tombs, and a reception at the American Embassy. It’s fun to be traveling with a young and ebullient bunch of natural-born [...]
We met the musicians playing for our performances in Beijing. They are officially called the Symphony Orchestra of the Chinese National Opera and Dance Drama Company, and are a good group. Our guest conductor Charles Barker is pleased to be working with them. The drive to the rehearsal hall impressed me with what a huge [...]
We finished our run in Shanghai and arrived in Beijing yesterday. The weather is blissfully cool and dry. Shanghai was so humid and warm that I couldn’t walk outside without breaking into a sweat. The only cool things in Shanghai were the audiences, which, as Lily Rogers noted, were much more reserved than we’re used [...]
China Wrap-up
Music Librarian for San Francisco Ballet
October 20, 2009