Your Berlin Correspondent

[Despina41]

I'm going to Berlin. (by the bye) For ten months. Hopefully there will be a good many opera and symphony concerts in my future. I'll keep you updated.

[haydnguy]

Oh, yeah, Despina, please do!! I'd be very interested to know what their music scene is like. I'll bet it's excellent!!! Have a great time and share any nuggets with us that you can.

[maureen]

let us travel and listen with you

[Philidor]

Originally Posted by Despina41

I'm going to Berlin. (by the bye) For ten months. Hopefully there will be a good many opera and symphony concerts in my future. I'll keep you updated.

Fantastic! It will be fascinating to hear about the arts scene there.

[Herzeleide]

Originally Posted by Despina41

I'm going to Berlin. (by the bye) For ten months. Hopefully there will be a good many opera and symphony concerts in my future. I'll keep you updated.

JEALOUSJEALOUSJEALOUS.



Gute Reise!

[Florestan]

Cooooool. Maybe we will come and visit you.

Or maybe you'll come to London.

[Mischa]

Besides the other music attractions there in Berlin: try to get tickets for the Yellow Lounge (http://www.yellowlounge.de/yl_events.php), a "Deutsche Grammophon" project in Berlin featuring some of the DG icons (Jean-Yves Thibaudet, Janine Jansen, Hilary Hahn) in club atmosphere. I had the chance to see Daniel Hope, the Emerson String Quartet and Hélène Grimaud there (she repeated her Beethoven sonata), just unique evenings! This might give you an impression of it - terrible acoustics, but great atmosphere and you can drink a beer with the soloist(s) afterwards:

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=snZozXyQrGQ"]YouTube - Mischa Maisky 'Fire Dance' (by Manuel de Falla)[/ame]

[Philidor]

Originally Posted by Mischa

Besides the other music attractions there in Berlin: try to get tickets for the Yellow Lounge (http://www.yellowlounge.de/yl_events.php), a "Deutsche Grammophon" project in Berlin featuring some of the DG icons (Jean-Yves Thibaudet, Janine Jansen, Hilary Hahn) in club atmosphere. I had the chance to see Daniel Hope, the Emerson String Quartet and Hélène Grimaud there (she repeated her Beethoven sonata), just unique evenings! This might give you an impression of it - terrible acoustics, but great atmosphere and you can drink a beer with the soloist(s) afterwards:

That's a great idea -- drive them from the concert halls and their tuxedos. It would be good to see similar clubs in London Paris, NYC etc.

[haydnguy]

Do people still "dress up" to go to concerts over there Philidor?

[Herzeleide]

Originally Posted by haydnguy

Do people still "dress up" to go to concerts over there Philidor?

Not really. Either Philidor was being rhetorical or he meant the players themselves.