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Berlin: Another “City of Music”?

February 10, 2025 By Guy St. Clair

My enthusiasm for musical performances seems to take on some sort of overwhelming urgency when I travel. As a result, I’ve been known to use the “city of music” description as I move about, especially in Europe. I’ve used the phrase when I write of Vienna (which really does call itself such in the city’s …

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Filed Under: Current Events, Journal, Music, Personal History, Travel Tagged With: Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin, Barocke Weilhnacht, Berlin, Berlin (Christmas 2024), Die Meistersinger von Nüremberg, Il viaggio a Reims (opera), Lucia de Lammermoor (opera), Maltman (Christopher), Music (Baroque), RIAS Kammerchor Berlin

Two Surprises at the Kröller-Müller Museum

November 19, 2024 By Guy St. Clair

The Kröller-Müller Museum, which Andrew and I visited last spring, is a lovely and relatively short drive from Amsterdam. As we see it, an excursion to the Kröller-Müller has to be one of the most rewarding experiences of any European visit. Recognized as having the second-largest Van Gogh collection in the world (the largest being—not …

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Filed Under: Art & Architecture, Personal History, Travel Tagged With: Amsterdam, De Hoge Veluwe Park, Kröller-Müller Museum, starry-night paintings, Van Gogh (Vincent)

Digital Postcard: Hello from Madrid (but Sent from Amsterdam)

May 17, 2024 By Guy St. Clair

Hello (again) from Amsterdam. Here’s our post from last week, re-sent with the photographs inserted as part of the text (using the blog format instead of the email format): We’ve been here in Amsterdam for a while, and I don’t think you’ll be surprised to know that we’re loving it.  And the title is a …

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Filed Under: Current Events, Personal History, Travel Tagged With: Amsterdam, Berner (Andrew), Kitt, Kitt (Sandra), Madrid, Thyssen Bornemisza Museum, Toledo, Toledo (cathedral), van Eyck (Jan)

Vienna: Collected Posts

April 16, 2024 By Guy St. Clair

For some blog posts in Sharing Guy’s Journey—when several have been written over a period of time about a particular subject—it is best to have them compiled into a list, which I’ll try to do with groups of posts in the future. “Search the website” is a useful too, but it searches by word, and …

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Filed Under: Art & Architecture, History, Music, Personal History, Travel Tagged With: Vienna (various posts)

Ghent Altarpiece: The Annunciation

December 24, 2023 By Guy St. Clair

For this post, I am sharing the image from one of my favorite holiday cards. And sharing it reluctantly, for I’ve sent many copies of this particular card to friends over the years. This is my last copy, and there are no more to send out. I can’t imagine how many of these I must …

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Filed Under: Art & Architecture, History, Personal History, Travel Tagged With: Ghent (Belgium), Ghent Altarpiece, Sint-Baafskathedraal-Gent, van Eyck (Hubert), van Eyck (Jan)

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