I'm a bit late with this blog but here goes. Sunday was our second concert of the Camerata Campbell concert season. You may remember we weren't thrilled with the last performance but luckily Sunday was a great one. We were off on the green bus at 11am on our way to the 12pm performance.
There was a whole herd of theater goers on the bus but, no one we knew.
The Plaza Machado square is always so beautiful.
No where near as busy as it was in December. However, it has been unusually cold so that might be part of it.
At first we thought it wasn't going to be very well attended but by second call it was a decent sized audience.
The young lady sitting on the right is part of the youth orchestra and the lady behind her is part of Camerata Campbell.
Tuning up before Gordon comes on stage to conduct and give us a run down on the program.
In this piece the orchestra is playing a train song and imitating the sounds that the train makes. The musician in orange has some sort of a brush instrument that he ran his hand over all through the number.
The young man getting a pat on the back was from the youth orchestra and he was in charge of the train whistle. A fun number!
Gordon was congratulating everyone at the end of the first half.
That is the lead violinist and the lady who is always in charge of the initial tune up. Perhaps their orchestra master?
We had a 15 minute intermission and that's Ruth stretching her legs. She and Marion are on the first balcony like us but opposite to us. Good seats and never anyone in front of you.
The young man in the center looked like Jesus to me!
An intermission selfie!
And we're done. The final encore number was from Australia..." Waltzing Matilda" and it was hard not to sing along.
A truly wonderful performance from start to finish and the young orchestra was quite spectacular. Well done...all of it.
Off down the street to find lunch at Chon's. It was almost 2pm so we wondered if we'd get a seat.
No problem. There was only us in the restaurant to start with. You can see our waitress up the front. She is a real sweetie!
Our usual Pacifico beer and lime.
To the right you can see the current " Chon" oriental in descent and probably from the original family. Chon's originated in some form back in 1946.
Nothing fancy here but good food.
I ordered a shrimp salad that came with green salad and rice. The shrimp salad was like a potato salad and very tasty. I managed all but the rice.
Eric had marlin burritos which he really likes. Served with guacamole.
When we finished I paid by credit card and there was no option for 20% so our waitress had to calculate the bill. She turned to Chon with the amount so he could help and then the older Mexican lady next to us chimed in and pretty soon we were laughing as they teased her about her lack of math skills. Cute!
Off to bus!
Heading home and it was almost 4pm. A really nice afternoon followed by a short happy hour, cake and cheese for dinner and the day was done.
Sounds like a wonderful Sunday. We, too, liked CHON’s and always had a good meal there. What a thrill for those young musicians to play at Angela Peralta. Thanks for sharing.
ReplyDeleteRan into Chon's by accident and glad we did.
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