China Update #2

No more word yet from Spencer in China, but we do know they had a big rehearsal on Friday. Rehearsals were done in sectionals, Red Orchestra (USA) and Green Orchestra (Australia, Guam, Japan) by themselves, and they also performed all together (2008 musicians) for the Olympic Cultural Committee (seated in the white chairs). If you enlarge the picture you can get a better idea of just how BIG a group this is WOW!

Sunday Aug. 3rd (our Saturday if your in the states), they made international news performing at Tiananmen Square. We heard it took 30 buses to transport them all! Thanks to one of the Modesto High school chaperons, there's a blog started along with pictures and videos of them preforming (Isn't technology awesome!) on a flickr site. Of course we scrutinized each and every picture and videos, as if we were searching a Where's Waldo book LOL and finally hit pay dirt! We recognized him by his nose!! Yep, that was our Spencer! (see the picture below with an arrow above his head).

After looking through all the videos this one is my favorite! I love how the front line kneels down so the drumline can be seen At the end you can really hear the horns playing!