Friday, June 16, 2006
The Hills are Alive with the Sound of Music
This weekend is the big Geneva music festival, Fete de la Musique Geneve. There will be over 20 stages around town with all kinds of music. According to the locals, the best plan of attack is to just walk around town until you hear something you like and then follow the music. Personally, I plan on taking full advantage of all of the free shows. Aside from your standard jazz, classical, rock, pop, blues, they also have free ballet and opera. I’ve never been to a ballet or an opera, so I’ll have to cash in on that experience. Someone at work pointed out that free ballet or opera probably means it won’t be very good, but I’m sure I won’t know the difference. Having received most of my exposure to ballet from Save the Last Dance, I can’t imagine I will be able to identify a bad ballet unless a woman gets dropped on her face or someone falls of stage. (I have to admit that I sort of hope that happens, so I can have a good story to tell on Monday. I’m a terrible person.)
There is also going to be a large amount of Fanfare music. What in the world is Fanfare? Almost every stage has Fanfare at some point, and I have no idea what that means. I’m picturing lots of bright colors and people jumping around wildly, perhaps with some kind of circus music playing. I’ll let you know on Monday if I’m right.
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