Well, today was the big day! Melissa gave her lecture recital on Astor Piazzolla's tango opera María de Buenos Aires, and Dave presented his research on two David Gilmour guitar solos from Pink Floyd's The Wall. It was a lot for one day, especially since we were both involved in helping the other prepare and execute, but at least now we can sit back and enjoy the rest of the conference without feeling like we "ought to be preparing!" And it went really well! Thank you for all the support from back home. We could definitely feel it!
Afterwards, we went out to dinner with friends we made at the
last CMS conference we attended. We had a very traditional Croatian meal of spit-roasted meat (picenje) and fried potatoes. It was so delicious, especially because we skipped lunch in order to make sure everything was ready to go for Melissa's lecture recital. For dessert, another Croatian tradition: walnut pancakes
(palačinka).
The pictures on this post are of us presenting. We mostly have Dave's presentation on video, but you can see him chatting post-presentation in the middle picture.
