How to dress for a concert

[couyalair]

Don't very often go to [unmentionable places] especially on Sundays, but today, after the usual ritual, there was a nice choral concert. Very enjoyable.
Looking round I realized there were only two skirts in the whole place, mine and St Michael's (still trying to slay that dragon). The priest had changed back to his off-duty attire. All the women were in trousers, and all the men dressed like the women.

Martin

[skirtyscot]

So on that (admittedly unrepresentative) sample, skirts are more menswear than womenswear!

But it is a bit depressing, isn't it? I've had the same sort of thing at quite a few choir practices, including one with over 40 of us, of whom about two-thirds were women.

Mostly locals or foreigners (whether settlers like you or tourists)?

[couyalair]

This morning, it was a very local Spanish choir, and I'd say the congregation was 100% local, while the audience for the concert was at least 90% local.

Another concert this evening in another town (just got back), a far more sophisticated affair in a far bigger church, packed to the ceiling (well, almost). The music, mainly baroque, was too good for me to have my mind on the clothing around me, but since Saint Michael did not show up, I imagine the proportion of skirts went down even lower.

Spain may be in the depths of a crisis, but we still have time for music, I'm glad to say.

Martin.

[crfriend]

Spain may be in the depths of a crisis, but we still have time for music, I'm glad to say.

"For the win!", for without music there would be much less joy in the world, and without joy....

Seriously, sometimes it really is the little things that matter -- and the nice part about "little things" is that it's possible for individuals to take part in them and bring the rest of his surroundings up by a bit.

[couyalair]

I regard music (real music!) as mankind's greatest achievement. Something outside the real world, a bit like mathematics; it has no purpose, no prejudice, no profit, except the simple deep joy it can bring. The one achievement that never did anyone any harm.

Martin