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church in Berlin
- Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf
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2013-03-04 18:58:00
The Glorious and the Unknown
Like many others who have lived long in a great capital, she had strong feelings about the various railway termini. They are our gates to the glorious and the unknown. Through them we pass out into adventure and sunshine, to them alas! we return. E.M. Forster's 1910 paean to the great temples of the railway age in Howards End is understandably focussed on London. Yet in his litany of these buildings and their destinations he goes on to describe one of the great termini of Berlin – a city which otherwise doesn't meet with Forster's approval. Italians realise this, as is natural; those of them who are so unfortunate as to serve as waiters in Berlin call the Anhalt Bahnhof the Stazione d'Italia, because by it they must return to their homes. The Anhalter Bahnhof was the gateway to the South. Situated close to […]
2013-02-15 19:48:00
Zur Hauptstadt
Over the coming week I'll be in Berlin, accompanying the students of Beaumont School's music tour. I've given a few lessons at Beaumont in the past, on Tchaikovsky and Lieder, in particular. They are a cracking bunch of students and no doubt we'll have a rewarding time in Berlin. We'll be singing in the Kaiser-Wilhelm-Gedächtniskirche and performing to other groups in the city. It's been a few years since I've been – my honeymoon in fact – but one of the most extraordinary things will be going around the formerly-divided city with a group of people who weren't even alive when the Wall was still standing. The history of Berlin is in fact really history to them. Will that make its horrors and its happenings seem stranger? I cannot wait to see the city again and find out.
2013-02-15 19:00:00
Zur Hauptstadt
Over the coming week I'll be in Berlin, accompanying the students of Beaumont School's music tour. I've given a few lessons at Beaumont in the past, on Tchaikovsky and Lieder, in particular. They are a cracking bunch of students and no doubt we'll have a rewarding time in Berlin. We'll be singing in the Kaiser-Wilhelm-Gedächtniskirche and performing to other groups in the city. It's been a few years since I've been – my honeymoon in fact – but one of the most extraordinary things will be going around the formerly-divided city with a group of people who weren't even alive when the Wall was still standing. The history of Berlin is in fact really history to them. Will that make its horrors and its happenings seem stranger? I cannot wait to see the city again and find out.
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