Dear friends of Piano Salon Christophori
I hereby invite you be two completely different concerts – one Classical as usual and one jazz which is less usual!
We heard the great young Dutch violinist Rosanne Phillipens give a brilliant concert at the Piano Salon in May with pianist Julien Quentin. See also – Delange Artists.
Many authoritative and even some authoritarian people are [...] Continue Reading…
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Hertha Berlin beat Stuttgart on Friday, ending their embarrassing and dismal 17 winless home games in the Bundesliga.
Raffael Caetano de Araújo – aka Raffael – the ever productive Brazilian striker for Hertha scored in the 86th minute. This after a cross from veteran Hertha midfielder Patrick Ebert crossed for the Brazilian to head past the Stuttgart keeper Sven Ulreich.
Ebert was able to [...] Continue Reading…
The UK based Guardian and its travel writer Rory MacLean have announced their selection of the top 10 best museums in Berlin.
Berlin has more than 170 museums and galleries so the list is really endless and while the Guardian and its writer certainly may chose any museums they want, it says a lot about the way they chose the ones they [...] Continue Reading…
Yes ANGRY CHICKEN indeed!
You can just envisage Colonel Saunders being cornered by 2000 angry Chickens.
As a name for a restaurant, in these times when most chickens and other birds are fowly treated – if you will excuse the pun- and at time when vegetarianism is gaining a foothold in even Germany - a bastion of dead-animal eaters, is questionable!
People would rather not know [...] Continue Reading…
Dear Friends of our live piano recitals, this week I have the pleasure to announce 2 new up-coming piano recitals, and hereby send you all a warm invitation to attend!
This coming Thursday, the 25th at 20.30 clock we present a great Beethoven interpreter American pianist Soheil Nasseri with his new recital program: the Chopin F minor [...] Continue Reading…
The good news is that it did not rain!
While many people looked up at various times thinking that they heard some nearing thunder – it was nothing more than aircraft taking off into some low-lying cloud cover at Tegel airport.
TheWaldbühne, Berlin or the out-door forest stage; in is one of the most beautiful open-air stages in Europe.
It lies at the western end [...] Continue Reading…
After having held the position for nearly 20 years, Joachim Hunold CEO of Air Berlin, the 3rd largest low-cost carrier in Europe, will step aside amid growing losses.
Air Berlin has since announced that it, along with other German carriers, was suffering from a new German air travel tax along with higher fuel costs and found these for competitive reasons difficult to [...] Continue Reading…
Dear Friends of the Piano Salon
I announce with great pleasure the two- pianos series schedule for the coming week- this Friday, 19th August starting at 20.30 Ms Olga Monakh a profound and emphatic Beethoven interpretor who has been nominated for for the prestigious Beethoven Competition is our first artist.
The solo Piano part of the evening, [...] Continue Reading…
Berlin Dom – Berlin Cathedral foto from Wikipedia by Holger Weinandt; Bearbeitung: unify (Perspektive entzerrt)
The Berliner Dom (and the unfortunate Kaiser who had it built)
The Berliner Dom is certainly one of the most conspicuous buildings in Berlin. It is perhaps the most striking example of the massive building projects that the Hohenzollern family undertook in their attempts to turn Berlin [...] Continue Reading…
Coat of Arms of Berlin – from Wikipedia
Berlin mayor Klaus Wowereit said last week he was certain he could stop an apparent recent surge of the Germany’s Greens party in Berlin and win a 3rd term – leading the country’s biggest city-state in the upcoming regional city/state election in September.
Germany is made up of 16 different provinces or Länder – sometimes translated [...] Continue Reading…
‘Seefestspiele Berlin’ it is called.
On an outdoor stage, right next to the waterside of the famous Berliner Wannsee Lake, Mozart’s THE MAGIC FLUTE will be performed starting this evening August 11th with intermittant productions up until the 28th. http://www.seefestspiele-berlin.de/
The whole set will be produced on a pyramide-shaped structure as stage, and this will sit right-on the waterfront.
Katharina Thalbach is in overall command [...] Continue Reading…
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