Impressions from the Opera Barga Festival
from Birgit Urmson
The noted writer Birgit Urmson spends a portion of every year
in a stately Renaissance palace in the historic town of Barga
in Tuscany, together with her husband, John. A distinguished clientele
including authors and musicians may rent the building's magnificent
main storey when the owners are abroad - see
The Debut
of the Berlin-Brandenburg Youth Chamber Academy at the Tertianum
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young musicians and their nineteen-year-old conductor Jens Albrecht
from Potsdam have fulfilled their dream of launching a full symphony
orchestra complete with strings, woodwinds, brass and percussion,
playing for persons in their "third stage" of life,
after whom the Tertianum is named. They gave overwhelming proof
not only that that classical music in Germany is alive and well,
but that a new generation of exceptionally talented young musicians
is already waiting in the wings.
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Christmas
Carols for Charity in Berlin
Members
and guests of Neukölln's International Choir performed many of
the favourite English Christmas Carols at the annual bazaar of the
Berlin Civil Servants' Building Association (BWV) in Rother Park.
All of the proceeds went to charitable organisations dedicated to
children and youth. ...more