The Duisburg Philharmonic Orchestra on Tour in Eastern Europe
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Starting on Monday, June 1st 2009, the Duisburg Philharmonic Orchestra and its music director Jonathan Darlington will tour Eastern Europe, paying a visit to the European Capital of Culture 2009 – Vilnius.
No 40 pounds per person baggage limit here! It’s a total of 1.776 kilos of instruments, equipment, stands, scores, personal belongings, etc. The first stop will be Bydgoszcz (140 kilometres south of Gdansk) where the orchestra will play on June 2nd at the Filharmonia Pomorska concert hall. The second concert will take the orchestra 400 kilometres East to Bialystok, the capital of the Eastern Polish province of Podlaska, and their concert venue Filharmonia Podlaska. Both concerts will feature a very Darlington-esque combination of works by Vaughan Williams, Haydn, Berlioz, and Beethoven. The pianist on both evenings will be Michael Roll. Read on…
Saving the Best for LastThe highlight of this tour will be a concert in Vilnius, Duisburg’s partner city, which is this year’s European Capital of Culture. As the first part of the partner city project TWINS, this concert will be conducted alternately by both Jonathan Darlington and Gintaras Rinkevicius, music director of the Lithuanian State Symphony Orchestra, featuring works by Berlioz, Beethoven and Vaughan Williams and Tchaikovsky – the last two pieces (Vaughan Williams’s “Tallis Fantasia” and Tchaikovsky’s “Serenade for Strings”) will be performed by the combined forces of the nearly 100 string players of both orchestras.Next year, the Lithuanian State Symphony Orchestra will pay a return visit, when Duisburg will be co-hosting the European Cultural Capital – Ruhr 2010.We’ll keep you updated!By the end of the tour, on June 8th, the orchestra will have covered 3800 kilometres, played many hours of music and reached out to new audiences.The web team will be blogging throughout the journey, keeping you updated with photos and videos, interviews and impressions, a Google Maps Journal and anything else we can think of to bring home as much as we can about the places, people and music along our way.
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