Day 213 - 08:03am, 2nd August 2019
Today was the start of the Edinburgh Festival and we were lucky enough to get tickets for the opening concert at Tynecastle. Gustavo Dudamel conducted the L.A. Phil in what was billed as a "family-friendly" concert. It was too. There were lots of children in the audience for whom I imagine it was their first concert experience. (It was my first time in a football stadium too.) And the usual concert rules of sit quiet and do not move did not seem to apply. Our stand was kept entertained by a toddler who was enjoying the freedom that the pitch offered her to stumble up and down its length, one eye on her mother, baiting her, the other on her audience, milking it. It turns out the concert was seagull friendly too. And they certainly made the best of it, dancing and singing along, causing the conductor to raise a wry smile as and when they overpowered his orchestra. This is the best of what the Edinburgh Festival should be - accessible, world-class and, most of all, prepared not to take itself too seriously.
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