Wednesday saw the first concert of the newly reformed Youth
Orchestra and the Junior String Group.
Some
42 youngsters took part, playing a varied programme including traditional music
of Peru and Bulgaria as
well as well as classical music by Vivaldi and Massenet. I also arranged the Vivaldi concerto for two
cellos for two euphoniums and was very happy with the result as it was redesigned
to work antiphonally between the two soloists.
Fredy and Rafa (two of my students gave a great performance and the strings
accompanied beautifully. Nicolle the leader of the youth orchestra also acted as
violin soloist in the Meditation from Thais by Massenet.
The youngsters had a great time and were very excited and
happy with the fact that the hall was full to bursting and the audience very
appreciative.
Parents took the trouble to phone the Conservatoire Director
to tell him how pleased they were – which is good for my credibility.
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| Vivaldi meets the Euphoniums! |
Today (July6) is the “Day
of the Maestro” and in recognition of that I was presented with a gift and am
to be given lunch today.
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| The bar! |
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| Disco disco! |
The other big event was the PARTY. The first party Nick has had to celebrate his
birthday since his 1st birthday!
He Invited friends and work colleagues and we had around 30 people dancing
drinking and eating - well actually: drinking, drinking, drinking, eating and
dancing.
The posh flood lighting was turned on in the front of the house and
along with the lighting it was pretty obvious that a party was going on –
especially as half of Trujillo
probably enjoyed the music. So glad we
wrote to the neighbours.
The music started at 10:00pm and finished around
6:30am: I went to bed at 5:00 having consumed vast quantities of “tequila shots”
– there was a mountain of food most of which was consumed along with around 12 bottles
of spirits and 72 bottles of beer!
Dancing......here's a "nice little mover" in action!
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| Nick and two of his admirers! |
Amazingly the fish swam aroung their tank oblivious to the mayhem going on, on the other side of the glass!
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| Birthday boy! |
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| The group foto |
The flat is a perfect party venue and it only took 6 hours
to clear the mess up on Saturday – he says sarcastically! Still Nick had the party he always wanted. [Only
blots on the landscape were very inferior helium balloons and the disco guys
left taking with them a full bottle of Absolute Vodka!]
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| Me, Nick and his Mum |
The countdown has begun for my trip to the UK, students are presenting
me with lists of “wants and needs” and
my diary is slowly but surely filling up- it is going to be a fun three weeks a
catching up with friends and enjoying the English summer (I booked sun!) my
last two weeks here are very busy leading up to three recitals in 3 days and I will be ready for a
break. Will miss Nick of course – but maybe
next year we will travel together.
Looking forward to a walk along the seafront in Hove .....
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