Clydeside

A wee bus trip to Glasgow and I was early so walked down to the river. Glasgow is always full of interesting photo opportunities but it was getting dark so I had to be quick. This is the South Portland Street suspension bridge, built in the early 1850s.

I was here for a Holocaust Memorial concert by young people from the Royal Conservatoire and from Turin, twinned with Glasgow. The music was very moving and the musicians very talented.

Before the concert started, I was reading about Pavel Haas, a Czech composer who was imprisoned in Theresienstadt concentration camp. In 1944 the Red Cross inspected the camp, which had been “tidied up” by the Nazis. They made a propaganda film https://youtu.be/CGHjogwQWeY which included the performance of a children’s’ opera. After the visit, 18,000 prisoners were moved to Auchwitz and almost all murdered, including Pavel Haas.

I am on a bus to Edinburgh now..