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July 14th - 27th 2005 Tour will attend: • Liszt Piano Festival in Budapest, Hungary and Vienna, Austria • An opera in the "Arena di Verona", Verona, Italy • International Piano Festival at Roque d’Anthéron, France Highlights: 6 recitals: at Liszt festival in Hungary and Austria, and at Roque d’Anthéron Piano Festival, France * Arena di Verona Opera event – Verdi Aïda * Lectures introducing concerts * Wonderful Hungary and Liszt’s birth place, * Splendor of Esterhazy Palaces in Esterhazy and Eisenstadt * Enchanting cities of Vienna, Verona, Cannes, Aix en Provence * Best of Hungarian, Italian and French cuisine and wines * Discovering the most beautiful regions in Europe
Cindy 13 nights Early Registration by March 1 US $3290. By April 10, $3390. Includes all hotels, two meals a day, all trasportation except airfare. See link for more info.
Janet said everything is really nice, the hotels, the tour busses, etc. She raved about one of the hotels, I don't remember which.
All my European travel was 25-years ago. We're talking Eurail pass, a backpack and pensions - cheapo cheapo.
There's a piano dealer in Florida who also does such trips, but you get to see manufacturers who built pianos for Liszt, and the pianos themselves (such as Steingraeber).
I'll look for contact info if anyone's interested (don't have it right here at the moment)
That's funny, so was mine(Summer of '79). I went on a one month tour of piano factories in both Western and(at the time)Eastern Europe, this in connection with the Piano Technicians Guild. Stayed in some pretty fancy joints and saw some good entertainment as well(the Czech Symphony Orchestra at the Konzerthall in Vienna, a ballet performance of Carmen's Bizet in Leipzig,and even "stumbled" upon the finals of the Piano Competition at the Royal College of Music in London). Even saw Dresden, part of which had undergone major reconstruction after the heavy allied bombing in the Second World War.
The most notable travel experience in my lifetime by far.
My Keyboards: Estonia L-190, Roland RD88, Yamaha P-80, Bilhorn Telescope Organ c 1880, Antique Pump Organ, 1850 concertina, 3 other digital pianos ------------------------- My original piece on BandCamp: https://frankbaxtermrpianoworld.bandcamp.com/releases
Me banging out some tunes in the Estonia piano booth at the NAMM show...
