The Universal Language, Fes, Morocco

During my after-hours impromptu visit here, a mother was kind enough to arrange for her daughter's performance, with some help from the school's caretaker.

This is a performing arts school for young children within the walls of the Medina in Fes, Morocco. During my after-hours impromptu visit here, a mother was kind enough to arrange for her daughter's performance, with some help from the school's caretaker. Thus began a piano recital by Mariam, a talented little girl, for which I was the only lucky audience. Unfortunately for me, the mother didn't speak any French (or English), so music was to be our only language of communication.

Where music was to be the only language of communication.