Who knew musicians could cause such disharmony?
We went to the Harry Connick, Jr. show on Tuesday night and had a good time but the performance wasn’t as stellar as I had expected. Harry’s voice was a bit off for some reason. Maybe it was a cold; maybe it was a bit of those Beijing ‘blue sky days’ getting stuck in the old pipes. He came packing a big band, but few numbers really allowed the horns to cut loose, other songs made no use of the horns at all. It seemed an oddly expensive exercise to bring such a large group of back-up musicians all the way to China only to have them lay out for half the set. Other folks in the audience complained the show was too short and that calls for an encore went unheeded. Either way, it was clear that something was up.
From AP:
Connick said Thursday he was forced to make last-minute changes to his show last weekend in Shanghai because an old song list was mistakenly submitted to Chinese authorities to secure the performance permit for the concert.
Authorities insisted he play the songs on that list, even though his band did