Awesome start:

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The University of Michigan’s Symphonic Band’s first concert of the tour of China was a smashing success! It started at 8:00 Thursday evening and was not finished until 10:20 PM. We performed the programs with such passion that we were asked for three encores. The soloists were amazing and the audience stood and cheered after every selection. Our last rehearsal and meeting will take place this afternoon as we finish our last minute preparations. We depart from Detroit at 4:20 Saturday afternoon and arrive in Shanghai at 7:10 Sunday evening. Then we have a “short” bus ride and should arrive in Hangzhou around midnight. When we are all crashing exhausted into bed after more than 20 hours of travel time, it will be a wonderful sunny Monday afternoon.


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