Berlin 20-07-2010
Liebe Freunde der Klaviermusik,
ich darf zum nächsten Klavierabend für den kommenden Donnerstag, denn 22.07.10 einladen, welchen zwei mir sehr teure Pianisten geben werden:
einer der großen Virtuosen unserer Tage, Ulugbek Palvanov wird seine Frau Eleonora begleiten. Es wird also ein Abend mit einem ersten solistischen Teil durch Eleonora Palvanov werden und einem zweiten Teil für 2 Klaviere mit einem der schönsten Werke [...] Continue Reading…
Berlin 19-07-2010
Fot0 by OTA-Berlin -Alexandr Vasilevsky – Click on to enlarge
On the north side of the Spree river - also being dubbed the ‘Mediaspree’ district- a new building is taking shape – actually from the outside is nearly finished.
First impression is very positive from the backside, the river side – a very modern, spectacular protruding out-jutting top middle section [see foto] between two rather [...] Continue Reading…
Berlin 18-07-2010
Molecule Man at at Treptower Park – foto OTA-Berlin Aleksandr Vasilevsky
This Molecule Man statue was completed in 1997 for the new ‘Allianz’ Insurance Company headquarters in Berlin and stands in the Spree River beside the office building – the only high-rise within a kilometer.
The architect for the ‘Allianz’ building was Peter Schwegler, and while it is rather stolid, bland but classical in [...] Continue Reading…
Berlin 18-07-2010
Just off the corner off of Kollwitzstrasse, on the watch-the-spelling ‘Sredzkistraße’ and within reach from the outside tables of the ever popular ‘Cafe Anna Blum’ one can find, what must surely be a unique find for any bibliophile or book lover – namely a free, help yourself book depository.
It takes the shape of some tree trunks that have been carpentered with [...] Continue Reading…
Berlin 17-07-2010
Berliners have been not been turning on their Saunas recently – because everywhere around them seems to be already a Sauna!
Were havin a Heat-wave!
As go the words of Irving Berlin, to a song he wrote with the same words in the thirties they apply today as well in Berlin!
We’re having a heat wave,
A tropical heat wave,
In a relentless heat wave in [...] Continue Reading…
Berlin 17 – 07 – 2010
Public Toilet design can and does say a lot about a society – in North America and the UK the open air urinal is almost unknown – probably as a result of the false and hypocritical prudery of these cultures.
‘Pissoirs’, the French word for urinal – and sounds better – started its public life in France but [...] Continue Reading…
Berlin 16-07-2010
The German government plans to charge flyers up to 26 Euro for each passenger flight under a new plan which will tax air traffic’s impact on the environment and also -more importantly – boost government finances.
The measure is ostensibly aimed at promoting people to change-over to other, more environmental methods of transportation – such as trains or perhaps even cycling where [...] Continue Reading…
Berlin / London 15-07-2010
Charles Mackerras, the Australian conductor who guest conducted the ‘Berliner Philharmoniker’ orchestra on several occaisions, and was one of the first in the West to fully appreciate and promote the genius of Leos Janacek outside of his native Czechoslovakia, as it then was called, has died aged 84.
All through his long career he promoted the merits of the operas [...] Continue Reading…
Berlin/Ekaterinburg/Beijing/Astana/Almaty 15-07-2010
Russia and Germany have reached an important mutual understanding after Germany’s Chancellor Angela Merkel met with Russia’s President Dmitry Medvedev on Thursday in the Urals city of Ekaterinburg for the 10th meeting of the ‘Petersburg Dialogue’.
Chancellor Merkel had left Berlin on Wednesday on a 5 day through Russia and then on to China – a trip to maintain the momentum for [...] Continue Reading…
Berlin 15-07-2010
Two views of the ‘Gendarmenmarkt’ in Berlin by Uli Klose of BerlinProPhoto | berlinprophoto.de
From 15th to 20th July 2010 on Berlin’s historical and scenic square, the Gendarmenmarkt, [see 2 photos above] will provide the setting for the 2010 ‘Classic Open Air-Festival’.
This is 19th time that this festival – which includes international soloists, orchestras and dancers, entertains music lovers from Germany and [...] Continue Reading…
Berlin 14-07-2010
Both football players and fans go to stadiums all over the world or watch games on TV in order to see skilful, positive-attacking, and end-to-end action.
They also want to see the rules of the game respected and their favourite players who produce that positive play on the field protected from cynical fouls and injury from the less talented players.
Bad calls by [...] Continue Reading…
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