Great concert in Shanghai! Björk sang Tibet, Tibet… during Declare Your Independence. I was so happy I kissed her for it afterwards. I read somewhere that Björk’s inclusion of Tibet’s name in the song had gone more or less unnoticed by the audience, but I definitely felt hostility.
Maybe it was just me…
After the concert many of us went to a fabulously beautiful restaurant in Shanghai which used to be the British consulate. I didn’t stay long though, for those going to Iceland had to get up early in the morning.
I’m in Reykjavík now, which is wonderful. This will be my last entry for a while. See you all in April!
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We arrived here on Friday after a splendid stay in Hong Kong. Our concert there was very good, I think, though we did have some technical problems. Something happened during Hyperballad that wasn’t supposed to happen, and the electronic harpsichord kind of died on me early in the evening. Nonetheless we were all in high spirits and the audience was GREAT.
Yesterday was interesting. In the morning I went to the place where my grandfather spent his last years. And in the afternoon I hooked up with Björk and a few others of the group to see a Chinese opera.
In the beginning the screeching falsetto of the singers made us all have a laughing fit. But then the monotony of the music started to have a dulling effect on us that was strangely soothing.
After some time had passed though, it was no longer soothing.
The last hour was pure hell!
I suppose many Chinese persons would say the same thing about some (maybe all) modern Western operas…
Anyway, tonight is our last concert for a while. Tomorrow we will go home for a vacation - we look so much forward to it!
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