Host gives a concert

Monica plays viola for the Granada symphony orchestra and scored me a ticket to their weekly performance in the Auditorio Manuel de Falla. This week they invited to direct them an American Josep Svensen whose Japanese-American mother and Norwegian-American father left him with a wicked sense of humour. He conducted Beethoven's 4th and then 5th Symphonies with boisterous enthusiasm and turned conducting into a performance piece in its own right.
It was so exciting one old dear lost her head.
Another had so many ideas going through his brain that his head lit up.
I can't explain the slaughtered dog in the foyer - perhaps it was an offering to the Gods.Read more