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| As an early present to ourselves we went to Palau de la Música for a concert. |
Part of the pleasure is not only the music, but the
building.
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| part of the ceiling |
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| just one of the mosaics |
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| a little part of the ceiling |
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| the grand staircase |
It was hard not to go around and gawk and take pictures of everything! There are great photos
here.
I don't usually complain but I will a little. I think if you have an old building with old plumbing and you have a concert you should bring in a port-a-potty if your toilets are not working. The other complaint may not be valid, but it certainly was visually striking. There were nine first violin players and one was a male. Can you guess the sex of the concertmaster/mistress? There were six cello players and one was male. Can you guess the sex of the first cello? There were twenty-three non-string players. One was a woman. Can you guess the instrument she plays? Did you know the Vienna Orchestra had no female musicians as permanent members until 1997? Maybe
conductors are next.
I had never heard of Palau de la musica and then yesterday I was at a guitar conference and they said concierto de aranjuez premiered there in 1940, and then voila, your post showed up!.
ReplyDeleteThe conference I went to was about the guitar from 1870 til 1945, it was free over at univ of melbourne. I learned so much.