Vienna

Tuesday 10 July 2012: Grand Finale

A group photo of all the participants in the Youth Music Festival, including The Milwaukee Youth Symphony Orchestra, who we looked after (They are in the balcony on the right, dressed in black). This was taken in the Koncerthaus, another fantastic music venue in Vienna.
The festival was fun but bedlam. The organisation was non-existent, but what the heck.
The festival included young people from everywhere, including the girls & boys of the Maibuy' ISkahile Youth Development Choir, who struck a pose every time a camera was pointed at them.
I'm off to bed as I have to be up in five hours to see the first part of the group off.

Striking A Pose Backstage At The Konzerthaus

Departure Dance

Tuesday 16 November 2010
Lima airport this morning at the departure gate, travellers were treated to an impromptu performance of Chilean song and dance by a group waiting for their flight to Caracas. The musicians were playing their guitars and singing beautifully, the people in the hall clapping along. Then, a couple got up to dance, circling each other, hankies waving above their heads. By the time I'd got my camera out it was nearly over but I managed a couple of shots.
Quality wise, the pictures are not much but it was a lovely, joyous interlude for everyone present, smiles all around. Maybe it could happen at Heathrow? Maybe not.
The dance is Chile's national dance. Called the Cueca, it parodies the courtship between a cockerel and chicken, the hankies representing a cocks comb.