Orchestra Performance, Class Visits to Remida and Tappo di Sughero, Family Time, and Florence: Week 13
This week, I had the absolute pleasure of watching the Camerata Salzburg Orchestra perform with Alessandro Taverna, an Italian pianist, in the Pavarotti-Freni Theater, which is a beautiful theater in my town! The theater was gorgeous. There are no other words to describe it. The performance was magnificent. As someone who played the violin for 8 years - not very well, might I add - I genuinely appreciated the immense talent that was on the stage. I could not sit still throughout the performance; I had to move with the music, so I would sway back and forth in my seat or stand up and move my body to the rhythms. Now, I will make sure to see local orchestra performances back in America because I really enjoyed it! -- As part of my Early Childhood Education course, I had a class visit to Remida, which is a "creative recycling center" in Reggio Emilia. Essentially, companies will donate items they are throwing away to Remida and then local teachers will come to Remida to get some ...