Waiting that last month before the next University Singers concert? Why not fill the time with some videos from our European concert tour?
All of the videos from the competition laps of the Marktoberdorf competition are now available on our youtube channel. Videos from the rest of the festival, including the final concert and the prizewinners concert, are forthcoming.
In the meantime, we're also working on adding videos from our concerts throughout the tour. The first of these is Trond Kverno's "Ave Maris Stella" from our concert in the Knights' Hall of Brezice Castle, Slovenia. More videos like this will be coming soon! Keep watching!
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Showing posts with label Brezice. Show all posts
Monday, August 17, 2009
Friday, May 22, 2009
Tour: National Theatres and Knight's Halls
As promised, here is a better update about Croatia. Varazdin is a beautiful little town and we were very excited to perform there. They seemed to be excited to have us, as there were posters of us all over the town!
We did spend a lot of time in rehearsal for the few days we stayed, but we were also privileged to meet with some government representatives while we were there. They told us some of the history of the town and made us feel quite welcome. They told us that Varazdin has a rich history of choral singing, and so everyone was very excited for our concert that night. The Croatian people are very friendly and warm! We all managed to squish into the reception room to meet with the representatives, and we even sang for them while we were there.
On Thursday, we performed in the concert hall of the Croatian National Theatre. The building was built in the late 19th century. It was really hot. I mean, really hot. But the audience was so receptive that the energy was just fantastic. It was a great concert despite the heat.
Today, we bid farewell to Croatia and came to Slovenia. We are staying for one night in the city of Brezice, where we performed tonight in the Knight's Hall of Brezice Castle. This hall is truly amazing. It took our breath away when we walked in. This picture, unfortunately, does not do it justice as the light in the evening was bad. But it is really beautiful with an amazing acoustic.
The concert tonight was really incredible. We got to sing Slovenian folk songs to Slovenians in their native tongue! I'm not sure how good our pronunciation was, but it was really fun to be able to sing to them in their own language, and they seemed to really enjoy it. I think we all felt really good about our performance tonight. Things just seem to be getting better and better!
Tomorrow we head to Italy to perform in Gorizia, and then we'll be back in Slovenia on Sunday. I'll do my best to update as much as possible!
We did spend a lot of time in rehearsal for the few days we stayed, but we were also privileged to meet with some government representatives while we were there. They told us some of the history of the town and made us feel quite welcome. They told us that Varazdin has a rich history of choral singing, and so everyone was very excited for our concert that night. The Croatian people are very friendly and warm! We all managed to squish into the reception room to meet with the representatives, and we even sang for them while we were there.
On Thursday, we performed in the concert hall of the Croatian National Theatre. The building was built in the late 19th century. It was really hot. I mean, really hot. But the audience was so receptive that the energy was just fantastic. It was a great concert despite the heat.
Today, we bid farewell to Croatia and came to Slovenia. We are staying for one night in the city of Brezice, where we performed tonight in the Knight's Hall of Brezice Castle. This hall is truly amazing. It took our breath away when we walked in. This picture, unfortunately, does not do it justice as the light in the evening was bad. But it is really beautiful with an amazing acoustic.
The concert tonight was really incredible. We got to sing Slovenian folk songs to Slovenians in their native tongue! I'm not sure how good our pronunciation was, but it was really fun to be able to sing to them in their own language, and they seemed to really enjoy it. I think we all felt really good about our performance tonight. Things just seem to be getting better and better!
Tomorrow we head to Italy to perform in Gorizia, and then we'll be back in Slovenia on Sunday. I'll do my best to update as much as possible!
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