Here are just a few of the photographs that my WFMT colleague and associate producer Matt DeStefano has posted on the new WFMT OffMic weblog from the CSO Asia tour. You'll also find video and audio clips and "postcards" as well as Matt's wry comments on his first big trip outside of the ol' US of A.
The National Centre for the Performing Arts in Beijing -- aka "The Egg" -- site of the last two CSO Asia tour performances.
CSO principal flute Mathieu Dufour rode a camel to the Great Wall.
CSO assistant principal viola and Shanghai native Li-kuo Chang is interviewed by one of the ace New York Times Beijing correspondents, Edward Wong, for a story perhaps a bit less complex than those from Ed's years of covering the War in Iraq. Li-kuo played a major role in lobbying for and helping to bring about the CSO's historic first trip to China.
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