Tonight I met up Paula, a girl from choir, at La Sacra (the music school) and we took the bus downtown. On the way, Linda’s new amigo Amistad, Ivan, got on our bus which was just a weird coincidence. I hadn’t seen him since the first time I met him over a week ago, but he remembered me! We chatted, all three of us, for the rest of the bus ride.
Paula and I got off right next to the Teatro Degollado in el centro and wandered around for like half an hour. We went into the state music school nearby in this old colonial building. It used to be a convent or something. At 7 we went into this small salon in the back of the theater where we sat through an hour long class about listening to and appreciating classical music. It was pretty cool because it was taught by a member of the orchestra (a cellist) and we listened to one of the movements they performed later that night.
At 8 we rushed to the front of the theater where Paula got a free ticket from one of the orchestra members (a fat, oddly proportioned percussionist) and I had to buy a ticket up in the balcony but it was with her student card which made it half price.
The first half of the performance was classical stuff. There was one movement by Mendelssohn with a huge violin solo.
The second half was with a mariachi band and I was down on the first level with Paula. I took a bunch of videos because the whole thing was so priceless. At one point the whole audience started singing along, complete with those stereotypical whoops and whistles. For their final song they sang one about Guadalajara. Paula was shocked I didn’t know it and told me if I didn’t learn it before I left then I couldn’t really say that I lived here. I better get on that. She’s going to make me a CD with all the traditional songs and another one with pop songs, hopefully.
After the performance her friend from La Sacra who also plays cello in the orchestra drove us home. I didn’t say much the whole ride because I was really tired but Paula made up for the both of us, plus maybe ten more people. That girl can talk! Well, time for bed.
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