Blog Post #1

Here is the first post! 

We leave in 5 short weeks! 

I can't believe this is happening to me again, it is so exciting!  I have been working at this hard for over a year to nail down all these concerts and excursions for my students! 

Below is our amazing itinerary!  This will be an adventure to remember!

Saturday, January 9

Depart Seatac

Sunday, January 10

Arrive in Leipzig take the train to our Hostel

Monday, January 11

Meet Guide at noon for a walking tour  

Tuesday, January 12

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Gewandhaus Brass Quintet

• Telemann - Allegro con spirito
• Scheidt - Galliard Battaglia
• Bach - Contrapunctus I aus "Die Kunst der Fuge" BWV 1080
• Brahms - Intermezzo Es-Dur op. 117/1
• Albéniz - Tango D-Dur - aus España op. 165/2
• Granados - Andaluza - aus "Danzas españolas" op. 37/5
• Ibert - Le petit âne blanc - aus "Histoires"
• Debussy - Les collines d´Anacapri
• Grieg - Norwegischer Tanz op. 35/2
• Glière - Russischer Seemannstanz aus dem Ballett "Roter Mohn"
• Stravinsky - Suite
• Horovitz - Les Girls aus Music Hall Suite
• Crespo - Ragtime aus der 1. Suite Americana
• Rodríguez - La cumparsita

Wednesday, January 13

Visit the Bach Museum

• Threepenny Opera, Meet at 7pm At the Große Bühne, Schauspeil

Thursday, January 14

Visit the Mendelssohn Museum

Gewandhaus Orchestra

• Shostakovich - Konzert für Violine und Orchester cis-Moll op. 129
• Rachmaninoff - Symphonic Dances, Op 45

Friday, January 15

Travel to Berlin and check into Hostel

Berlin Philharmonic, meet at 7:30pm at the Philharmonic Hall

• Schumann - Genoveva Overture
• Chopin - Piano Concerto No. 1 in E minor Maurizio Pollini soloist
• Reimann - Sieben Fragmente für Orchester in memoriam Robert Schumann
• R. Strauss - Four Symphonic Interludes from Intermezzo

Saturday, January 16

Meet Guide at 11AM in front of the Aldon Hotel for a walking tour of Berlin

Visit the Nazi Museum

• Swan Lake Ballet, meet at 7PM at the Deutsche Opera House

Sunday, January 17

Attend High Mass St. Hedwig's Cathedral, we will leave from the Hostel TBA

• La Traviata

Monday, January 18

• Free Day
• Possible side trip to Wittenburg
• Possible visit to the Check Point Charlie Museum

Tuesday, January 19

Visit the Pergimon

Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra of Venezuela conducted by Gustavo Dudamel

• Igor Stravinsky - Petrushka
• Igor Stravinsky - The Rite of Spring

Wednesday, January 20

Travel to Prague Check in at Hostel

Dinner at U Fleků 

Thursday, January 21

11am Meet Guide at the Astronomical Clock for a walking tour.

• Rusalka, Opera by Dvorak.  Meet in the Prague State Opera House at 6:30PM

Friday, January 22

Visit the Lobkowisc Mansion

Czech Phil - Dvorak Concert Hall, Conductor, Semyon Bychkov Violin, Janine Jansen

• TCHAIKOVSKY: Romeo and Juliet Overture-Fantasy
• BRUCH: Violin Concerto No. 1 in G minor Op. 26
• TCHAIKOVSKY: Symphony No. 3 in D major Op. 29 “Polish”

Saturday, January 23

Visit the Musical Instrument Museum

Chamber Music at St Martins Church in the Wall

String Quartet

• B. Smetana - Vltava from My Country
• A. Dvořák - Humoresque, Largo, Slavonic Dance No. 8
• J. Pachelbel - Canon in D
• G. Bizet - Intermezzo and Overture from the opera Carmen
• A. Vivaldi - Four seasons: Spring, Winter
• J.S. Bach - Air
• W.A. Mozart - Divertimento in F
• T. Albinoni - Adagio
• J. Brahms - Hungarian Dances No. 5, 6

Sunday, January 24

Travel to Salzburg and check into Hostel

Monday, January 25

Meet Guide at 11am in front of the Mozart Statue for a tour

• Mozart Dinner (Paid for, Chamber Music and voice)

Tuesday, January 26

Visit Mozart’s Birth Home

Camerata Salzburg, Meet at the Mozarteum Theater at 7:00 PM

• Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy “Elias“ op. 70 – MWV A 25

Wednesday, January 27

Happy Birthday Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart!!!!

Visit the Salzburg Castle

Vienna Philharmonic, meet at the Festspeilhaus at 7:00 PM

• Mozart Symphonie D-Dur KV 385 “Haffner“
• Dutilleux “L’Arbre des songes“
• Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy Symphonie Nr. 4 A-Dur MWV N 16 „Italienische“

Thursday, January 28

Travel to Vienna

Vienna Chamber Orchestra at the Konzerthaus Conductor, Stefan Vladar Piano, Magda Amara

• Mendelssohn - Konzert für zwei Klaviere und Orchester As-Dur (1824)
• Brahms - Serenade Nr. 1 D-Dur op. 11 (1858)

Friday, January 29

Meet Guide at 11am in front of St Stephens for a tour

Jazz Orchestra at the Konzerthaus at 7:00PM

Kurt Rosenwinkel

Orquestra Jazz de Matosinhos

Saturday, January 30

Travel to Eisenstadt, Esterhazy and Haydnkirche

• The Magic Flute, The Vienna Staatsoper Meet at TBA

Sunday, January 31

Kunsthistorisches Museum

Musikverien, Tonkunstler Orch Yutaka Sado, Conductor Meet at 3PM

• Joseph Haydn - Symphonie C-Dur “Le Midi”
• Anton Bruckner - Symphonie Nr. 4 Es-Dur “Romantische”

Monday, February 1

Visit the Zentralfreidhoff

Schönbrunn Palace Tour/Dinner and Concert (Paid for) Meet at 5PM

Tuesday, February 2

Possible day trip to Budapest

Free Day

Wednesday, February 3

Depart for Home