Saturday, May 23, 2009

Music Festivals

By Ian Kleine

I was always the music buff of the family. My folks had always been for the more "nonsensical" part of living, and aside from their apparent non-interest in music; if it doesn't generate income, it's hardly worth their time. I was the exact opposite of them, like the black sheep of the family. I loved music, so much, that it made people wonder whether I was adopted or the outsider of the family.

But I'm not the type of guy that would be automatically biased with whatever my taste carried me to. More so, with the things I like. I am actually more critical when it comes to the things I like. So let me write this review with an open heart, an open mind and an ear for things worth listening to.

There was going to be a music festival that will be held inside our local mall (plus points to the fact that it is inside the mall, so I can be spared from the assault of our local insects and mosquitoes). The theme for the musical fest was the classical, the music of the Renaissance and the periods even before that.

I arrived inside the mall around an hour before the actual start, which is to say, around morning. There were quite a number of people who had already been dabbling about, looking for some things to peruse on, but I had taken my interest in the number of neatly printed, and antique-inspired brochures that were abound. Some had a few history lessons in them, while others, had a few tidbits of information that caught my eye (like Beethoven composing the Moonlight Sonata when he was literally deaf).

There were quite a large number of booths, stands and tables, selling almost everything that had something to do or had to with music and its branches. (To be continued)

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