Here's Don's video of 'City Called Heaven' from the Spanish Synagogue, using a better camera than mine:
Enjoy, and please send me any more links you want to see here!
Thursday, June 25, 2009
Tuesday, June 23, 2009
List of Links from our trip
Below is a list of links from all the media collected on the trip so far:
- My blog photos of the trip
- Don Anderson's photos of the trip
- Don's videos of the trip
- Tracks from the Tuesday (June 16th) concert at St. Nicholas Church in Prague
- Video of the choir singing in the Pilsen Restaurant in Prague
- Video of the Gunn Choir portion of the performance at Votivkirche in Vienna
I will be happy to post links to any other files that come up -- video or audio, just let me know. I expect to see a few more audio files from Craig when he (like me) comes back to consciousness and has time to tweak the files, and I also hope to see more video.
Now that the trip is over I appreciate what a massive undertaking it was, and I want to express my thanks to all the great kids, the amazing chaperones and to Bill. We had a unique and gifted experience!
- Glen
My Blog Photos
I have a web album of the photos only from my blog here:
http://picasaweb.google.com/grosendale/GunnHSChoir2009Tour#
Don Anderson's Photo Album:
http://albums.phanfare.com/5425871/3924461
Don Anderson's Videos:
http://gunn2009prague-viennatour.blogspot.com/
St. Nicholas Church, Tuesday June 16th:
Beati Quorum
Ave
Sicut Cervus
Hark I Hear the Harps Eternal
Elijah Rock
After-dinner singing at the Pilsen Restaurant in Prague, Wednesday June 17th
Votivkirch Festival Concert, Saturday June 10th
Beati quorum via:
Ave:
City Called Heaven:
Elijah Rock:
- My blog photos of the trip
- Don Anderson's photos of the trip
- Don's videos of the trip
- Tracks from the Tuesday (June 16th) concert at St. Nicholas Church in Prague
- Video of the choir singing in the Pilsen Restaurant in Prague
- Video of the Gunn Choir portion of the performance at Votivkirche in Vienna
I will be happy to post links to any other files that come up -- video or audio, just let me know. I expect to see a few more audio files from Craig when he (like me) comes back to consciousness and has time to tweak the files, and I also hope to see more video.
Now that the trip is over I appreciate what a massive undertaking it was, and I want to express my thanks to all the great kids, the amazing chaperones and to Bill. We had a unique and gifted experience!
- Glen
My Blog Photos
I have a web album of the photos only from my blog here:
http://picasaweb.google.com/grosendale/GunnHSChoir2009Tour#
Don Anderson's Photo Album:
http://albums.phanfare.com/5425871/3924461
Don Anderson's Videos:
http://gunn2009prague-viennatour.blogspot.com/
St. Nicholas Church, Tuesday June 16th:
Beati Quorum
Ave
Sicut Cervus
Hark I Hear the Harps Eternal
Elijah Rock
After-dinner singing at the Pilsen Restaurant in Prague, Wednesday June 17th
Votivkirch Festival Concert, Saturday June 10th
Beati quorum via:
Ave:
City Called Heaven:
Elijah Rock:
Sunday, June 21, 2009
Sunday June 21, 2009 - Our last day in Vienna
Today was our final day in Vienna, the only musical event being a mass in Laxenburg, about an hour outside Vienna. The choir sang during the local mass and also gave a recital afterwards. Laxenburg was the summer seat for the Hapsburg dynasty, and the palace and church ("kirche") are still there, nicely restored. The choir boarded coaches at 8AM in choir attire and we went straight to the kirche:
Here's the outside of the church. As you can see, yesterday's wet weather has gone, and today was a beautiful sunny day -- up in the high 60's again and perfect for sight-seeing.
Here our chaperones point out the poster for the Sunday attendance of the Gunn HS choir.
The church is rather small -- our choir and chaperones alone could have almost filled it had we all sat in the pews. The townspeople who attended seemed to enjoy the music quite a lot. Below Bill is rehearsing the choir:
Here's the choir singing after the mass, a recital for the residents. The church is very light and airy, with some beautiful paintings.
After the mass and performance, the kids changed clothes and we headed to a surprise destination which wasn't in our itinerary. Vienna has a park, the Prater, centered around a large ferris wheel (Wiener Riesenrad) -- once the largest in the world:
Today it's center to an urban park and an amusement park, a good place to relax and enjoy some of our final day:
After leaving the Prater, we then embarked on a guided tour of the Ring Strasse -- the street that surrounds Vienna along where the old town walls used to be -- and of some other sites. This is in the Hofsburg Palace:
Clouds started arriving in the afternoon but never turned to rain, thankfully.
Once our guided tour was finished we went to the Alter Bach Hengl Restaurant for our final dinner together. The specialty was the Wiener Schnitzel, and everybody had a great time relaxing -- with all the performances complete the kids felt pretty good.
The Bach Hengl also had music, which even had some of our kids dancing (you can see that in Don Anderson's photo gallery when he uploads the pictures)
We returned to the hotel at about 9:30PM, enough time for some socializing before we packed up our stuff and turned in for a quick nap -- we're up at 3AM for our coach to the airport, and then back home.
It was a busy final day, with music and fun and memories that the kids & chaperones will carry for a long time.
Before I go, here's a video from the Votivkirche performance:
The quality's not so great -- I shot it with my little Canon camera, but it gives you an idea of the performance. I'll be uploading the other numbers after I get home, where my bandwidth is bigger -- it won't take days to upload there.
Next post will be from home!
Here's the outside of the church. As you can see, yesterday's wet weather has gone, and today was a beautiful sunny day -- up in the high 60's again and perfect for sight-seeing.
Here our chaperones point out the poster for the Sunday attendance of the Gunn HS choir.
The church is rather small -- our choir and chaperones alone could have almost filled it had we all sat in the pews. The townspeople who attended seemed to enjoy the music quite a lot. Below Bill is rehearsing the choir:
Here's the choir singing after the mass, a recital for the residents. The church is very light and airy, with some beautiful paintings.
After the mass and performance, the kids changed clothes and we headed to a surprise destination which wasn't in our itinerary. Vienna has a park, the Prater, centered around a large ferris wheel (Wiener Riesenrad) -- once the largest in the world:
Today it's center to an urban park and an amusement park, a good place to relax and enjoy some of our final day:
After leaving the Prater, we then embarked on a guided tour of the Ring Strasse -- the street that surrounds Vienna along where the old town walls used to be -- and of some other sites. This is in the Hofsburg Palace:
Clouds started arriving in the afternoon but never turned to rain, thankfully.
Once our guided tour was finished we went to the Alter Bach Hengl Restaurant for our final dinner together. The specialty was the Wiener Schnitzel, and everybody had a great time relaxing -- with all the performances complete the kids felt pretty good.
The Bach Hengl also had music, which even had some of our kids dancing (you can see that in Don Anderson's photo gallery when he uploads the pictures)
We returned to the hotel at about 9:30PM, enough time for some socializing before we packed up our stuff and turned in for a quick nap -- we're up at 3AM for our coach to the airport, and then back home.It was a busy final day, with music and fun and memories that the kids & chaperones will carry for a long time.
Before I go, here's a video from the Votivkirche performance:
The quality's not so great -- I shot it with my little Canon camera, but it gives you an idea of the performance. I'll be uploading the other numbers after I get home, where my bandwidth is bigger -- it won't take days to upload there.
Next post will be from home!
Saturday, June 20, 2009
6/20/2009 - Festival Night
Tonight was our final big concert in Vienna, 'A Tale of Two Cities: Honoring the Anniversaries of G. F. Händel & Franz Josef Haydn". This festival concert combined our choir with choirs from Turlock High School in California, Wando High School in South Carolina, the CSU Concert Choir & Community Chorus from Fresno, and the University of Missouri-St. Louis. This was the third combined concert of our trip, and was conducted by Anna Hamre and Hilary Apfeltstadt (accomplished choir conductors). In addition, Camerata Medica Vienna provided accompaniment on strings, trumpet & organ for the combined pieces.
The concert consisted of individual sets by the Turlock High School Madrigals, the University of Missouri-St. Louis; our set was 'Beati quorum via', 'Ave', 'City called Heaven' and 'Elijah Rock'. After the individual sets, Anna Hamre conducted the combined choir in 'Zadok the Priest' by Händel and 'Little Organ Mass (Mass No.5 in B-flat) by Haydn. Then Hilary Apfelstadt conducted the choirs in 'Te Deum in C for Maria Therese' by Haydn and 'Sing unto God from Judas Maccabaeus" by Händel.
However, before that concert we began the day with a tour of the 'House of Music' museum in Vienna, where the interactive & informative musical exhibits kept our kids interested. This was a relatively brief stop, however, as the rest of the day was spent rehearsing for the 8PM concert.
After the concert was over we attended a buffet dinner for all participants, held at Vienna University (former teaching place of Sigmund Freud!)
Below are a selection of snapshots from the day. Here's the Votiv Kirche in Austria, where the concert was held:
After dropping the kids for rehearsal, the chaperones headed out for a bite to eat
This is the interior of theVotiv Kirche, before the beginning of the concert. It's enormous, dark and gothic (as befits a gothic cathedral, of course)
Below are some photos taken during the combined choirs performance. As you can see, there are a LOT of people. As you can also see, my little point-and-shoot camera was taxed to the maximum (and then some). Once Don Anderson has uploaded his pictures you should have a much better view.
This is the size of the cathedral, and the audience as it leaves after the concert:
Here's the University of Vienna site of the buffet dinner, and some more shots of the kids & chaperones enjoying themselves:
It was a very long and tiring day, but filled with amazing music. Tomorrow I hope to upload some videos & you can see what they looked like.
Goodnight!
The concert consisted of individual sets by the Turlock High School Madrigals, the University of Missouri-St. Louis; our set was 'Beati quorum via', 'Ave', 'City called Heaven' and 'Elijah Rock'. After the individual sets, Anna Hamre conducted the combined choir in 'Zadok the Priest' by Händel and 'Little Organ Mass (Mass No.5 in B-flat) by Haydn. Then Hilary Apfelstadt conducted the choirs in 'Te Deum in C for Maria Therese' by Haydn and 'Sing unto God from Judas Maccabaeus" by Händel.
However, before that concert we began the day with a tour of the 'House of Music' museum in Vienna, where the interactive & informative musical exhibits kept our kids interested. This was a relatively brief stop, however, as the rest of the day was spent rehearsing for the 8PM concert.
After the concert was over we attended a buffet dinner for all participants, held at Vienna University (former teaching place of Sigmund Freud!)
Below are a selection of snapshots from the day. Here's the Votiv Kirche in Austria, where the concert was held:
After dropping the kids for rehearsal, the chaperones headed out for a bite to eat
This is the interior of theVotiv Kirche, before the beginning of the concert. It's enormous, dark and gothic (as befits a gothic cathedral, of course)
Below are some photos taken during the combined choirs performance. As you can see, there are a LOT of people. As you can also see, my little point-and-shoot camera was taxed to the maximum (and then some). Once Don Anderson has uploaded his pictures you should have a much better view.
This is the size of the cathedral, and the audience as it leaves after the concert:
Here's the University of Vienna site of the buffet dinner, and some more shots of the kids & chaperones enjoying themselves:
It was a very long and tiring day, but filled with amazing music. Tomorrow I hope to upload some videos & you can see what they looked like.Goodnight!
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