Category: Maestro’s Vietnam Adventures

Day 11 We spent the morning recovering from the activity from the day before, then was picked up Lan to do a bit of shopping...

Jan. 5 Concert Day.  We leave the hotel at 8 AM for a 9 AM rehearsal. There is a huge poster outside the opera house...

January 4 It is the day before the concert and there is still much work to be done primarily on the Dvorak Symphony. We’ve arranged...

January 3 Another morning rehearsal this time back on the Copland which was a bit rusty from the weekend’s activities. The music came back soon...

After three days off from this concert repertoire, it is time to renew our preparations for the performance on Friday. This is one of the...

Jan. 1. Happy New Year! For western tastes there will be no parades or football this year. Instead we use the day to continue to...

Dec. 31. After Leslie has Pho and I opt for an omelet for breakfast, we are picked up by Lan and Thang and driven an...

Dec. 30 Catching any kind of a bug on an international trip is not fun, but compound that with two days of double rehearsals in...

Dec. 29 The day began the same as the previous day with another international breakfast in the hotel and then the 30 minute drive to...

December 28 The Sheraton Hanoi serves an international clientele and the breakfast in the lobby restaurant shows it. There are stations for Korean, Japanese, Chinese,...

December 25 to 27: There is something to be said about international travel in regards to patience. The cliche “hurry up and wait” absolutely applies...