A time for everything

While I was waiting outside the Palau de la Música, a few minutes before the concert, I noticed that the people around me were the same kind of people who are expected to be at the gates of a church... With only one difference: these people were smoking before entering. Also I saw a lonely old man who was smiling all the time, 15 minutes in a row, and I was about to ask him about the reason of such an incredible happiness when I thought that, perhaps, he had some sort of muscle problem in the face that doomed him to that demostration of joy. Elena arrived late because of the traffic and because of her own nature. After the moments of suspense, we finally could enter to the Palau and prepare ourselves to listen to a selection of works by Dvořák: In the nature, Carnivale, Otelo and the Symphony nº7 in D minor. It was my very first time in a concert of classical music. I had been to some little concerts, trios and quartets, but not with an entire orchestra. I liked it. I liked live music, the rhythmic movement of musicians and the listlessness of the woman in a black gown who played the traverse flute. She could be the summer breeze but also the winter coldness, the nature calm but also the human pain. Despite having the same taste as far as cheese is concerned, Elena and me have really different musical preferences. She likes the percussion and I like woodwind instruments, she likes the drums and I like the oboes. I told her that this may be caused because I'm a Gemini and my main element is the air, so random and fickle. She's the insider in the world of music: she has sung and also played the piano some years ago... And she has even had dinner with Lang Lang himself last month as well! After the concert we went with Robi and Hector to the May's Oktoberfest held in the bullring. My last time there was amazing and I didn't lose my shirt as I did yesterday, but this time was funny too and we sang and jumped and drank like real Berliners. Prost, meine Freunde!