Finishing thermo homework at 1 AM that’s due the same day at 9:15 AM. Even in France, some things never change.
We went to the old Arsenal in downtown Metz for a concert tonight. They’ve converted it into a pretty nice little concert hall. It’s probably the perfect size for the kind of music they were doing. I’d call the music chamber music: it was 4 concertos by Carl Philipp Emmanuel Bach, including a cello and flute concerto. Apparently all those years of music lessons paid off, because during the concert I was thinking to myself, “This really sounds like the very beginnings of the classical period” because it had a hint of polyphony, but much more use of harmony. Turns out CPE Bach is considered the founder of the Classical style. Who knew.
It was really obvious at the concert who had some appreciation of good music and who was there only because they got some sort of credit or something for their HTS class. Oh well. The Arsenal apparently has a bunch of free (as opposed to wildly cheap at 8 euros) concerts this summer. I’ll have to stop by again, hopefully next time I’ll have more time to hang out in downtown Metz after.
This weekend I’m off to Spain to meet up with Melissa (a friend from Atlanta) and hang out in San Sebastian. I’ll have a long layover in Paris because the TGV to spain leaves at 10:30 pm and I’m planning on rolling in around 6 pm.