Some chronicles of my time traveling through Germany learning about the great Johann Sebastian Bach – and drinking beer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n
Our last day in Leipzig was truly grand with the performance of Bach’s Magnificat and Christmas Oratorio in Thomaskirche. My professors had told us to visit the church beforehand to take a look at Bach’s […]<\/p>\n\t<\/div>\n\n\t\n\t
I awoke to excellent news from my newly college-bound sister – CONGRATS, J! – and snow. We spent the morning reading scenes from Itamar Moses’s play, Bach at Leipzig. The play follows 5 or 6 […]<\/p>\n\t<\/div>\n\n\t\n\t
Our first full day of Leipzig was eventful and fun. I woke up and took a city run and found a couple solid parks (Germans do parks well), but of course incomparable to Sans Souci. […]<\/p>\n\t<\/div>\n\n\t\n\t
On Sunday we arrived in Potsdam, a suburb about 45 minutes outside of Berlin. It’s a lively town, basically a small city in itself. My professor Ofer had told us to look forward to the […]<\/p>\n\t<\/div>\n\n\t\n\t
A short but lovely visit to the little town of Kothen. Kothen was where Bach wrote many of his instrumental pieces, including the Brandenburg Concertos and Cello Suites. He was hired by the Kothen court, […]<\/p>\n\t<\/div>\n\n\t\n\t
Today was an incredible, but emotionally exhausting experience. We visited Buchenwald, a major concentration camp during the Holocaust. The visit was altogether chilling from the start. We began in the heart of Weimar, the sun […]<\/p>\n\t<\/div>\n\n\t\n\t
Wednesday and Thursday update! We left Eisenach on Wednesday morning and drove to Arnstadt, where Bach had his first job as an organist. He was such a good composer and organist that he was paid […]<\/p>\n\t<\/div>\n\n\t\n\t
A busy but exciting week – I’ll be splitting Monday\/Tuesday and Wednesday\/Thursday into separate posts, since there’s so much to talk about! We rose early on Monday morning to make the four hour drive to […]<\/p>\n\t<\/div>\n\n\t\n\t
We’re coming to the end of our time here in Luneburg, as we leave bright and early tomorrow morning for Eisenach, Bach’s birthplace. I’ve enjoyed my time here, but I’m antsy for a change. The […]<\/p>\n\t<\/div>\n\n\t\n\t
Day five in Luneberg and things still continue to surprise me. As a completely irrelevant tidbit, which may only be impressive to me, the toilets in Germany are quite efficient! To flush, there’s a large […]<\/p>\n\t<\/div>\n\n\t\n\t
These first few days in Luneberg have been fun, but exhausting. The jet lag is still very much real, and I still haven’t gotten over the preposterous idea that all of my friends in Colorado […]<\/p>\n\t<\/div>\n\n\t\n\t
Arriving in Germany actually went incredibly smoothly, although I am exhausted and jet lagged. I tried my best to take in little cultural quirks as much as possible on both my flights and my time […]<\/p>\n\t<\/div>\n\n\t\n\t
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