{"id":1709,"date":"2020-01-21T06:39:12","date_gmt":"2020-01-21T11:39:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/travel.woodring.us\/?p=1709"},"modified":"2022-07-11T16:34:52","modified_gmt":"2022-07-11T20:34:52","slug":"baroque-in-valletta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/travel.woodring.us\/wordpress\/2020\/01\/21\/baroque-in-valletta\/","title":{"rendered":"Baroque in Valletta!"},"content":{"rendered":"

For two weeks each January, Valletta hosts a Baroque Festival<\/strong> – concerts are programmed in an array of Baroque venues across Malta. It’s a unique festival as the music is performed in settings that it was originally composed for.<\/p>\n

Sketch by Miyuki Sugihara – San Anton Palace<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

We chose two concerts to attend and bought tickets online before we left home. Monday we attended our first, a noon concert of Bach Transcriptions performed by a Japanese pianist, Kotaro Fukuma<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

While he was performing, a Japanese artist, Miyuki Sugihara was quietly sketching and painting to create the watercolor image above!<\/p>\n

Artist and Friends<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

After the concert we met Miyuki and her friend as we were all eating lunch at the same nearby restaurant. She kindly let us take a photo of her artwork! She is sketching to create images in various festival venues and plans to create a book of prints to commemorate the festival performances. It was a treat to meet her!<\/p>\n

The concert was performed in a elegant room in San Anton Palace<\/strong> – home of the President of Malta. Beautiful public gardens surround the palace. Larry took this photo of a giant poinsettia – more tree-like than the Christmas plant we’re familiar with!<\/p>\n

Poinsettia- San Anton Gardens<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Larry also took a short video of a black swan primping her nest. We learned that it will take about six weeks for her eggs to hatch.<\/p>\n