Frauenkirche
A palace...I forgot what it's called
Kreuzkirche...sideways
Kreuzkirche from afar
Christoph Eschenbach shaking the hand of the organist... I never found out his name. I didn't want to pay 3.00 euros for a concert program
Sonntag
9:00-9:30 - Practice
10:00 - Church at Dom
11:30 - Lunch
12:15-12:50 - Rehearse with Rachel
1:10 - Leave for Dresden
3:30-5:00 - explore Dresden with David
5:00-7:00 - Dinner at Hilton
7:00 - Purchase tickets for concert
7:30 - Purchase McDonald's Mcflurry
8:00-10:30 - Gewandhause Orchestra Concert
11:30 - Back from Dresden
Bill, Susan, Lauren, Brian, David and I visited Dresden, which fortunately was only about a half hour away from the hotel. We arrived in a mall-like area. Dresden I find looks much more modernized than Leipzig but also retains a very historical look after renovation. We visited a very large church called the Frauenkirche and also roamed around a couple of palaces, one of which looked like a German rendition of Versailles. All over were food stands and restaurants with people eating outdoors. It's almost impossible to walk through the square and not run into an ice cream vender. As was the case in Leipzig, the town was full of street musicians, too.
The concert took place in the Kreuzkirche ("Cross Church"), which is apparently the largest evangelical church in the world with a seating capacity of 3000 or more. The program featured the Gewandhaus Orchestra--one of the best maybe top dozen orchestras in the world!--performing the Dvorak Cello Concerto with Jan Vogler (!) and the Saint Saens Organ Symphony under conductor Christoph Eschenbach. Tickets sold for only 10-20 euros (!!!), which fortunately our program covered for us. It was a very exciting feeling to be in the presence of a such a top notch orchestra with super high level musicians, and the space had a wonderful acoustic--and yet another Silbermann organ--for the organ symphony.
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