Sun, Apr 30, 2023:  St. Louis, MO:  We went to the ballet yesterday to see the St. Louis Ballet production of Swan Lake at the Touhill Performing Arts Center on the University of Missouri campus.   What a great performance.  And they were accompanied by the Springfield Symphony Orchestra.  I bought box seats this time and was a little concerned.  But they were perfect.  No one around us.  We were above the fray with a great view of the stage.  When I lived in Hendersonville, NC, I paid big bucks to see the Bolshoi Ballet perform in Asheville, NC, and they did a scene from Swan Lake—the dying swan scene.  And saw Mikhail Baryshnikov perform.  My girlfriend and I attended the gala afterword.  Mikhail and the troupe were at a table near us, but we didn’t try to talk with him.  Probably a good thing.