Yesterday morning, we hopped on the train very early to get to Barcelona (see above). We arrived around 9:00 am and took a cab to our hotel where we left our bags. Two students from the conservatory met us and took us to the school. We warmed up and played our concert - it went quite well. Again it was a small audience of saxophone and percussion students, but nevertheless, they enjoyed it! This is a special building close to the school of music....no dirty thoughts, now....
Afterwards we had lunch at a Japanese buffet, then headed back to the school for a three-hour clinic/masterclass. I presented some material about marimba performance and then students from the conservatory played for me and I made comments about their playing. It was a talented group of students! I struggled at times to get across my points to them, though they understood most of what I said. My Catalunyian is not very good!
After the clinic/masterclass we went to a nearby bar/cafe and had a few beers. Then we went to an Italian place for dinner and had some pretty nice pizza! I had the Dia
blo with spicy meats - yummy!
We were pretty tired, so we came back to the hotel and crashed!
Barcelona sightseeing for the next two days! Stay tuned....
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