55 consuls check in with music tool each
22. 10. 2009
Nobody told the staff of the Meridien Barbarons hotel to expect an orchestra so they were puzzled when 55 guests from as many countries arrived each with a musical instrument, one of the envoys said on Thursday night.
“One staff member could not help asking if we were coming to play some classical music,” the island nation’s honorary consul to Bulgaria, Maxim Behar, said as he handed the guitars, violins, trumpets and drums to the head of Seychelles school of music, Jerris Souris.
“We certainly work in concert but we’ve never been in an ensemble,” Behar said, adding the consuls meet on the palm-flanged islands every two years for a conference as they decide how to best represent the tourism-dependent Indian Ocean archipelago overseas.