It has continued hot this week, calling for high 90's F the last two days. Stacy came out to visit before we leave for Hungary- she'll be on the train with us there- and we drove into Dnepro yesterday afternoon for a concert in the organ hall which we had not been in. The car thermometer read 39 C as we drove, hot air blasting in the windows (this is why we lament the lack of A/C in Ladas) and may have malfunctioned when we got to the city as it went up to 46!
It was cool inside the hall (you may guess that it was a church but was repurposed during Soviet times) and the concert was nice, although I nearly choked trying to supress a coughing fit during one selection. There was an organist, an assistant to pull out the stops, a young lady dressed in black and silver who introduced the pieces, and a featured violinist, as you can see in the poster. The stops wer on the left panel over the organ in the photo, and we got the full effect on one peice when they did "pull out all the stops"!Tickets cost about 5 dollars for the second tier of seats, rather like thrones really, but the lady announced just before it started you could now sit anywhere and we ended up in the front row.
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| the organ palace, you can see it was an Orthodox church once |
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| sneaky photo before it started (no photos sign) |
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| advertisment of the performance |
We had a surprise when it was over, as the wind was blowing and it had cooled off to 28 C as we drove home. Sadly the rain that seemed to be around did not fall here, Garry's cornfields are in danger of drying up and dying if it doens't rain soon.
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