Granada

Aside from what was possibly the most horrible illness of my life (I spent the entire free day and evening in bed meaning I missed a rehearal and 2nd concert), I had a great time in Spain. My sunburn is no longer visible (it wasn't that bad), despite two days of sitting by the pool. I bought nothing, but took plenty of photos.

The concerts took place outside in an open air auditorium at the Alhambra, which was a 10-minute walk from the hotel. They both began at 10:30 PM. Very long nights.

Thanks to everyone being together pretty much the entire time, I now know about half of the orchestra (c. 50 of 96ish members). I went to dinner with some new acquaintances on the free evening (Sunday). I noted that all of us were from a different country, or at least a different heritage- Tom is English, Moritz- German, Laurant- French, Chi- English, but with a Chinese background, Evgeny- Russian, and me, the token American. We apparently spent so much money that the server had the owner of the restaurant stand with us when I asked him to take our photo. We were also give a free drink and chocolate truffles.

The orchestra has a concert tonight at the Barbican. Yes, they just arrived back to London this morning. The concert is the same as last night's in Granada- Prokofiev PC 3, Firebird, and a couple Ives things. As I'm still recovering from my horrible whatever-it-was, I think I'm going to go back to bed for a while before rehearsal.