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Yes! To your point about the music, I guess the fact that it's on Joplin, et al skewed my expectations. I thought MacMillan would do more with it. Like Rubies but in reverse, hehe!

Hi, Everyone - My first "impressions" post! I finally caught up with the stream. A different feel to the evening than the first gala. I think this second one pipped the first for me, programming-wise. (I didn't mind the interventions of the host so much in the first -- it was nice to hear from the company members. But chiefly, I thought Elite Syncopations, which I hadn't seen before, would be, I don't know... more? While the dancing was as committed as one could hope, the piece seemed oddly paced to me. I kept expecting it to build up somehow and have a bigger payoff at the end. Is it considered a major MacMillan?) Some random thoughts: 1. It was a real treat to see a bit of Rhapsody. I wanted more. 2. Interesting to see the Marston danced by a different couple. I think I'm getting it more with more viewings. 3. O'Sullivan/Sambe danced the Balanchine with aplomb though neither quite hit their sweet spot as they did with the Ashton. 4. Loved the yearning in Hayward's Odette -- more despairing human than histrionic bird. I can imagine her pdd fitting into a full telling of the story. 5. Morera's little touches spoke volumes. Bonelli was dreamy. 6. Osipova doing it her way, take it or leave it. Good on her! 7. There's something about Bracewell that really charms me. 8. I like the RB in lyrical mode. 9. No Magri/Ball? Natch! Overall, I thought it was an excellent showcase for the Company. This pandemic really needs to end soon so these beautiful artists can go back to doing their thing full-time.

Thank you for the welcome, Ian. It's a casting issue, I see. The combination of Vimeo, Mac, Chromecast and Panasonic is not the most obliging, I'm afraid. If you haven't tried it yet, and you're not too fed up with the situation, perhaps try screen mirroring through AIrBeamTV for Mac to Panasonic? There's a free trial version you can test quite easily. If you have sufficient bandwidth and neither your computer nor your TV is too far from your router or in a dead spot, it should work without (too much) video/audio lagging. (Not sure if linking is allowed here so I won't put the link. But a Google search should turn AirBeamTV up.) In any case, I hope you and your family enjoy the wonderful gala even on your tiny screen.

Oh, this is terrible. I had similar problems as yours (I think!) with my Samsung TV and had to try a few things before I could make it work. Is it that you can't play the video at all on your Mac or you can't mirror your Mac to your Panasonic or both? (My first post. Hi!)