Salut! Bon jour, mes amis, if you plan to give me Mozart’s 12 Variations on “Ah! Vous dirai-je maman!”, my good friend Jun O., the country’s foremost expert on bacteria, viruses and rabies, beat you to it! He found the piano score at the rue de Rome in Paris. That’s one off the wish list. Now if only someone can take a hard look at no. 1…
Under my expert prodding and encouragement, he’s been attending classical music concerts in Paris, yes the music of Mozart and Puccini. He’s been telling me he noticed the audience doesn’t clap in between movements, and since he can’t distinguish one movement from the other, he waits for the others to clap first before he does.
He’s so lucky he gets to watch Mozart’s Requiem this week-end, a piece the composer wrote for his impending death and which shattered his soul so much he never completed it.
Oh by the way, Jun fell off his bike while pedaling his way through the French countryside, broke his arms, and spent ten days in a first world hospital. Jun, c’est la vie! He’s returning to Manila next week, with a French twang. He's now in an excellent position to ace his French exams at the Alliance.
1 comment:
I'm going home not with a twang, but with a waistline two beltholes bigger than before! see you soon.
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