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XIANGHE, China — The BYU-Hawaii Concert Choir group that is touring China and Mongolia from May 7-29 included a performance at a small elementary school in this agricultural community of about 1,200 people approximately 50 miles outside of Beijing. They also toured a nearby apparel factory owned by an unusually generous man, which gave them insights into the rural villages that make up an estimated 85% of China's population.
BEIJING, China — The BYU-Hawaii Concert Choir and the BYU Provo Young Ambassadors made what is believed to be the first-ever joint appearance of performing groups from the two campuses during a special musical social in the Chinese Academy of Art Theater that was attended by Church members and alumni here.
BEIJING, China — BYU-Hawaii President Eric B. Shumway and First Quorum of Seventy member and BYU Provo President Cecil O. Samuelson — who are both in the capital of China with their respective touring performance groups — spoke to over 200 expatriate members at the Beijing Branch of the Church today. Asia Area President Elder Daryl H. Garn, who is a member of the Second Quorum of the Seventy, and Elder Chia Ju Yen, Beijing-based Area Authority Seventy, also attended the branch meeting.
BEIJING, China — I feel fortunate to be part of the University Advancement media crew covering the BYUH Concert Choir tour to China and Mongolia — with performances in Urumqi, Xi'an, Beijing, Tianjin and Ulaanbaatar — from May 7-29. With this submission, I would like to depart a little from my normal coverage of the tour and share a few of my own impressions and feelings:
BEIJING, China — The 62-member Concert Choir tour is nearing the halfway point of its "Harmony with Aloha" tour through China and Mongolia. On Wednesday, May 16th group members bid farewell to this city, their 2nd stop on the tour itinerary, by giving an outdoor performance at Xi'an International Studies University, where they were enthusiastically received.
XI'AN, Shaanxi, China — Though members of the BYU-Hawaii Concert Choir that is currently touring China gave gifts to the children at an orphanage this morning, it's fair to say the students got more out of the experience than the kids.
XI'AN, Shaanxi, China — "I've never been on a tour where I've felt so much love," said Napua Baker, BYU-Hawaii Vice President of University Advancement, as she asked several members of the BYU-Hawaii Concert Choir touring China and Mongolia from May 7-29, 2007, to briefly share examples of "charity or pure love" they have experienced while on the road during a morning devotional service. One of them is rather amazing:
Altamonte Springs, FL — The top-ranked Brigham Young University Hawaii women’s tennis team claimed their second consecutive NCAA II national championship, and seventh in the last nine years, by overwhelming fourth-ranked West Florida today, 5-0, for the Seasiders’ 60th straight win.
XI'AN, Shaanxi, China — Over 20 BYU-Hawaii alumni now living here expressed their aloha and embraced members of the visiting BYU-Hawaii Concert Choir during a special musical social that was held the first evening the group arrived in China's ancient capital.
URUMQI, Xinjiang, China — Government and Xinjiang University officials praised the BYU-Hawaii Concert Choir and new-found friends bid a touching farewell after the group's second and final performance in this far-western city where approximately half of the people are ethnic Uyghurs of Turkic heritage.
URUMQI, Xinjiang, China — The family of Nina Abuliz Foster, a 2004 BYU-Hawaii Interdisciplinary Studies graduate and a current dance instructor at the university, hosted the entire visiting Concert Choir group to an evening of outstanding Uyghur food and entertainment. The head of the family also presented the group's leaders with special gifts.
TURPAN, Xinjiang, China — During their stay in the far-western Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, BYU-Hawaii concert Choir members took the time during their three-week tour of China and Mongolia to visit a 2000-year-old engineering feat that ranks with China's Great Wall and Grand Canal, and also to see one of the country's best preserved archeological sites.