Tagged With "KPE Bach"

Well Dresden and Leipzig pretty nice cities to visit. In Dresden the former Frauenkirche got rebuild which got totally destroyed by the bombing attack if the Second World War. Also the side on the river Elbe invites in long walks and beautiful areas. Especially the sights like Zwinger and the Semper Oper are worth to visit. Leipzig is the City I come from and it has changed a lot after the reunion. The inner city is not that big but it has a lot if history. Sebastian Bach and his famous...

This week marks Johann Sebastian Bach's 330th birthday on March 21 or 31, 1685. The difference is due to the change, during his lifetime, from the Julian to the Gregorian calendar. Above, his vault in the floor of the Thomaskirche, Leipzig Germany....

Jonathan L takes us on a tour of some small galleries in midtown New York.

Check out a list of feasts and festivals for this month in Germany.

After a brief holiday, I am back to Finding Reiner. I am writing this family mystery as a travelogue ( and as a graphic book illustrated by the fabulous Maria Lebedeva whose illustrations I include here ) for two reasons. First, war stories mean...

When we first started including a week-long February school break in our travel plans, our goal was to go somewhere significantly warmer than New York City. We still try for that, but once in a while something else calls, and we found ourselves...

PHeymont visited two churches in eastern Germany that have linked histories, but quite different interiors.

Leipzig is celebrating a batch of musical anniversaries this year. This month saw the re-opening of the Mendelssohn Museum with expanded space and a conduct-it-yourself electronic orchestra; next month is the 300th birthday of KPE Bach, son of Johann...

For PortMoresby and everyone...Google "classical music on Steelpan" and you'll get a surprisingly large collection of hits, including this one, featuring a high school pan orchestra playing a Bach D-minor concerto:

The trend toward outrageous footbridges over deep gorges continues, with two new ones opening in Vietnam and Czechia

PHeymont visits one of Amsterdam's largest and best-known churches, with its masses of windows and bright interior.

PHeymont visits a historic Hamburg church that bears the signs of its many eras and of war.

PHeymont visits a sprawling museum that examines recent centuries of technology on the ground, in the air, at sea and at home

A new owner will operate a well-known fleet of European river cruise ships

Barry Barford continues ambling around the streets of Vietnam's capital, Hanoi.

Barry Barford concludes his tour of Vietnam's capital, Hanoi.

Ships from the failed Crystal cruise line will now sail for Uniworld river cruises

Two ships from the failed Crystal Cruises company join a new fleet

The Salzburg Festival, one of the world's premiere performing arts celebrations, opened its 95th season yesterday with a with a schedule of 188 performances, down from 270 last year, and a 6% budget cut.