Elizabeth Borowsky Writes
Inhale Life, Exhale Music
Pictures from Schloss Engers in Neuwied
We performed a concert in Schloss Engers (Villa Musica)
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Dilsberg, continued...
The last month has passed quickly. Already, everyone in town seems to know who we are, what we do, where we are... It's a small town, and word gets around FAST. …
Mark Twain's Take on Dilsberg
From: http://twain.thefreelibrary.com/Tramp-Abroad/0-19
However, I wander from the raft. We made the port of Necharsteinach in good season, and went to the hotel and ordered a trout dinner, the same to be ready against our return from a two-hour pedestrian excursion to the village and castle of Dilsberg …
More photos... first days in Dilsberg.
Another view of our home... The square building in the foreground has laundry facilities on the bottom floor (brick part) and a room for Emmanuel to practice in on the second floor (Fachwerk and windows).
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A few photos
The Neckar River and picturesque Neckarsteinach.
Ship passing through a lock on the Neckar River.
Our home...
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Evening at Schwetzingen Festspiele
On Thursday, I attended a wonderful duo piano concert performed by the husband/wife team Liuben Dimitrov and Aglika Genova at the Schwetzingen Festspiele. They performed a beautiful program of Ravel (Daphnis et Chloé), Liszt (Variations on Mozart's Don Giovanni), Bernstein (excerpts from West Side Story), and Gershwin (excerpts from Porgy and Bess) with ease, unbelievable precision, and convincing interpretation. The audience (myself included) loved them and enthusiastically rewarded them with what I call the European Uni-Clap (the whole audience magically morphs from chaotic individual clapping to a unified rhythmic clapping... this seems to only happen in Europe), thereby squeezing 3 encores out of this pair. …
(Sleep)-walking to the Neckar River and Four Castles
My Dad has been hiking up and down the mountain every morning since we got here. I've been sleeping in... but woke up early enough today to join him.
We headed down the mountain, zig-zagging on a steep incline through lush, green woods with birds serenading us all the way. …