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After the usual lengthy lunch of 12 courses or so, we went to the CCTV television studio stage at around 2 p.m.  Fellini would be right at home in this environment.  There were a hundred or so performers from all over China, a couple dozen makeup and costume facilitators, tech folks scurrying around and the continuous mist blowing on the stage.  We suddenly launched into a tech rehearsal for our own performance.  Xiaohui emerges from an upstage pit while I am 70 feet downstage on a  white enamel concert grand.