I hadn't intended going to the Royal Festival Hall this afternoon - in fact, as the weather was quite pleasant, I was thinking of going somewhere outdoors, but when someone at Mass offered me tickets for the afternoon concert, I couldn't turn them down. So after a quick lunch, I was off to the South Bank
The Royal Festival Hall really is a superb venue; either it has been improved, or I had forgotten just what a marvellous place it is. Or maybe I just hadn't sat in some of the most expensive seats before,
Anyway, I climbed up all the stairs to the fifth level, and found myself sitting in an aisle seat with a marvellous view of the orchestra.
The music was wonderful - Beethoven's 9th Symphony, and the piece de resistance, his Ode to Joy. I know it's become associated with the EU, but one can forget that connection when sitting there listening ot it.
Afterwards along with hundreds of other people, I wandered along the Embankment, looking at all the stalls.
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