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Thursday June 19, 2014
Today we had another quick volunteer meeting at Hearts Of Gold
then I had a delicious burger at California Kitchen while waiting for my next
volunteer event.
“La Alianza Francesa De Cuenca Presenta Tres Dias De Musica
Gratuita” or, “The Alliance Francaise Of Cuenca Presents Three Days Of Free
Music” at 33 locations, with 83 bands with 420 musicians. I don’t know the total number of volunteers,
but there are 40 photographers.
The kickoff was the Cuenca Symphony at the Teatro Carlos Cueva
Tamariz near the main University. The
venue is truly world-class and a pleasure to visit.
There were at least 4 volunteer photographers plus at least 2
press photographers plus innumerable amateurs in the audience. Very few were heeding the “no flash” rule.
The organizers have asked us to combine photos of the venue, posters, organizers, musicians and crowd and submit about 30 photos overall. This will be a hard choice because I still have to cover 4 more venues tomorrow...
The event was to begin at 7pm, and the Symphony is usually fairly
prompt but tonight was definitely on “Ecuador time”. There were too many interminably boring
speeches, all in Spanish, for a ½ hour. Musicians
were still showing up at 8pm when the performance actually started. The pianist was fun to watch, but otherwise
the music selection was pretty boring, certainly not toe-tapping material. They played only about 40 minutes and it was
over….
When I got home I had no internet and there still was no reception
Friday morning, so I apologize for the delay in posting this.
NOTE that you may click on any photo for an ENLARGED VIEW.
Hope you enjoy the photos. That was the day's excitement, Cheers, Al
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| Teatro Carlos Cueva Tamariz daytime |
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| Nightime shot #1 |
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| Poster for this particular event |
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| Nightime shot #2 |
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| Nightime shot #3 |
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| Part of slideshow display prior to the event |
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| Posterized Emcee lady |
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| One of the speechmakers |
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| Violinist awaiting the start |
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| Posterized French Maestro Gaetan Kuchta |
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| It is a rather large Orchestra for such a small city |
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| I am naturally drawn to the violins |
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| Capturing motion without a flash is real tricky |
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| Horns and flutes and percussion |
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| A little higher view of the whole enchilada |
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| Maestro and baton at the ready |
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| Bass fiddle is impressive |
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| Following the baton |
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| Loved the reflection of the pianist |
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| He was the main solist |
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| The view from the cheap seats |
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| The pianist performed without any sheet music |
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| Latecomers to the event |
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| The underside of the piano lid was like a mirror |
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| A low view |
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| A ground level view.... |
