Postcard from Bucharest: George Enescu International Competition

There are three things that the Romanian people are proud of: their country’s natural beauty, their IT industry and George Enescu,’ Romanian conductor and newly appointed artistic director of the George Enescu Festival and Competition Cristian Măcelaru told me. ‘It would be difficult to find someone walking down the street who doesn’t know who Enescu is.’ In fact, it would be difficult even for tourists not to notice Enescu, given that he is on the five-lei banknote…