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Wednesday, December 19th, 2012

Welcome to the 2nd Berlin Piano Festival next year the 13th til the 21st April 2013 .
Individuality, virtuosity, creativity, rich sounds, diverse interpretations, they experimented, all characteristic of our very different pianists, whether internationally renowned or even just at the beginning of the career standing. Experience at the 2nd Berlin Piano Festival, the most interesting pianists close.
In 2013, we also expect the [...] Continue Reading…
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Sunday, December 16th, 2012
Ludwig van Beethoven – www.ota-berlin.de
Ludwig van Beethoven was born in Bonn on December 16th 1770.
Even though no actual authenticated record of the date of his birth exists, the registry of his baptism, in a Roman Catholic service at the Parish of St. Regius in Bonn made on 17 December, 1770 survives.
Infants born in Northern Germany at this time were traditionally baptised [...] Continue Reading…
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Thursday, November 29th, 2012

Piano Recital Li-Chun Su
This Friday at 2030 hrs
Piano Salon Christophori
JS Bach – The Well-Tempered Clavier Volume I
www.lichunsu.com
Today - Friday, the 30the November [Winston Churchill's birthday] at 2030 hrs – the truly great, no-frills Taiwanese virtuoso Li-Chun Su with the Well-Tempered Clavier by JS Bach Volume I
She has been impressive at all the recitals at the Piano Salon Christofori winning the Porto Piano Competition internationally [...] Continue Reading…
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Monday, November 19th, 2012

Ms Cindy Su – OTA-Berlin Constituency Blog
This series of short articles about night life, bars and music in Berlin by the irrepressible and ever curious Ms Cindy Su are the opinion of the writer and not necessarily of OTA-Berlin GmbH. OTA Berlin is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Germany License. If you use this article or parts of it, please refer [...] Continue Reading…
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Monday, November 12th, 2012

On Saturday evening the BBC’s chief stood before his own and other television cameras and announced his retirement – after 54 days in the job!
This resignation, of director George Entwistle on ,of the “most distinguished station in the world”, as the ‘BEEB’ calls itself , currently finds itself in perhaps its greatest crisis in its history,.
With the resignation of Entwistle and then in-turn, [...] Continue Reading…
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Sunday, November 4th, 2012

Giacomo Puccini (1858 – 1924)
T U R A N D O T – first performance Milano April 1926
Dramma lyrico in three acts; Libretto by Giuseppe Adami and Renato Simoni, after the play by Carlo Gozzi; First performed on 25th April 1929 in Milan; Premiered at the Deutsche Oper Berlin on 13th September 2008
Sung In Italian with German sub-titels
Conductor Jesús López Cobos
Orchester der [...] Continue Reading…
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Friday, November 2nd, 2012

This is the smart logo of JORIS – so working with eating – makes sense!
The whole area on Brunnenstrasse between Invaliden Strasse and Bernauerstrasse in Berlin has been in a state of flux for some years, however things seem to be consolidating themselves more recently.
There are now many interesting local fashions stores, local IT and Software companies –including WeNeSe GmbH on Rheinbergerstrasse [...] Continue Reading…
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Friday, October 26th, 2012

Will Berghain Close Because of GEMA in 2013?
In what must be some of the best news for clubbers around the world this year, Berghain officially has no plans to close in 2013 despite the hike in tariffs that it will be forced to pay when the new GEMA laws go into effect on April 1st, 2013. Although the owners of the club [...] Continue Reading…
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Monday, October 22nd, 2012

Dear Guests and Friends of the Piano Salon -
Concert invitations for this coming Wednesday, the 24th October at 20.30 hrs.
One of my dearest companions of the salon, the conductor and pianist Mr Michael Abramovich may be heard in a Rodion Shchedrin evening.
The next week is on Wednesday 24th 10th Mr Abramovich at 20.30 h, the performance of the 24 Preludes and Fugues [...] Continue Reading…
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Sunday, October 14th, 2012

Program -
Beethoven Sonaten op. 14 No.2 und op. 10 No.2
Stravinsky Sonate
Beethoven Bagatellen
Dear Guests and Friends of the Piano Salon Christophori -
Our series of special recitals continues this coming Tuesday, 16th October at 2030 hrs.
And if your not going to the Olympic Stadium in Berlin to watch Sweden play Germany in World Cup Qualifying, [or watching it on German television] then you [...] Continue Reading…
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Friday, October 5th, 2012

This Sunday, the 07th October at 2030 hrs the Piano Salon Christophori proudly presents again MUSICA litoralis with Julien Quentin and another world-class musicians, cellist Isang Enders.
Isang Enders with a bang, enter the international stage by. Than 20 years on one of the most important places in Germany, which was the concert master of the Staatskapelle Dresden appointed under Christian Thielemann He has been [...] Continue Reading…
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