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Entry from: Vienna, Austria
Entry Title: “Music Field Study Tour”
Entry:
“Here at MUDEC, we are required to take two classes which have a traveling component. Our first class trip was this past week with our mini-field study course. My course is called the History of Western Music, and our field tour was to the beautiful city of Vienna, Austria.
We left from the Chateau on Wednesday afternoon and took a 3 hour bus ride to Cologne, Germany. In Cologne, we then boarded a plane and flew into Vienna. Once in Vienna, we checked into our very nice hotel. Really, the hotel was probably one of the best parts of the whole trip. Not only were the rooms clean, warm, and comfortable, they also provided us with a full breakfast buffet every morning! After dropping our stuff off in our rooms, we walked to a nice little restaurant on the water for dinner. For dinner, we had potato soup, Hungarian goulash, and apple struedel. It was delicious.
Thursday morning, we woke up bright and early, ate a wonderful breakfast, and then headed out for our first day of touring. We first went to the birthplace of the composers Joseph and Michael Haydn in Rohrau, which is just outside of Vienna. We toured the house and then boarded the bus again and headed to a little town on the Hungarian boarder called Rust for lunch. After lunch, we headed for the town of Eisenstadt where Joseph worked as a musician in the court of the princes of Esterhazy. We toured the beautiful palace of Esterhazy and then went to Joseph’s apartment in town. Now, 2009 is the 200th anniversary of Joseph Haydn’s death, so obviously everything is closed for renovations. The apartment was closed and we couldn’t go inside. We then headed to the church in Eisenstadt where Haydn is buried, but the Mausoleum was also closed. So, we then boarded the bus and headed back to the hotel to change into our evening attire. After everyone got pretty, we headed off to see a concert at the world-famous Musikverein in Vienna! The concert was Antonin Dvorak’s Requim op. 89 performed by the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra Amsterdam. The concert was great for about the first 10 minutes. The hall was absolutely beautiful, and I did honestly like the music. But, I have a very very short attention span when it comes to listening to classical music. Add that to the fact that we had standing tickets and were stuffed into a small, hot, crowded, smelly section in the back for over two hours, and I was pretty excited when it was over. It was a unique experience though, and I am glad that we did.it.
Friday morning, after another spectacular breakfast, our professor lead us on a guided tour of the city of Vienna. Afterwards, we had free time for lunch, so my friends and I stopped into a pub and ate some authentic pork weiner schnitzel. It was delicous. We then met back up with the group and toured the Mozart House in the city. Mozart’s was my favorite museum of the trip. It was very interactive and informative. For instance, did you know that Mozart died very young from a number of conditions which his doctor attempted to treat by sucking his blood out of his body and feeding him mercury? Very interesting stuff. After the Mozart House, we had free time again. My friends and I did some shopping in the city center, and then we split up. My group went to the Hotel Sacher for some food. The Hotel Sacher is famous for its Sachertorte, a chocolate cake a marmalade filling and very secret recipe. Now, you can get this type of cake all over Vienna, but the Sachertorte is the original. You can even have a cake delivered anywhere in the world if you so desire. Anyway, I got a Sachertorte, and it certainly lived up to all of the hype.
Saturday morning, we had free time. So, Alina and I decided to go watch the morning practice of the white Lipizzan horses at the world-famous Spanish Riding School in Vienna. We got a little lost on our way there, but we finally made it. It was pretty neat. Afterwards, we went to St. Stephan’s Chapel in the city center, which by the way is my favorite church I have seen thus …”
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Photos from this trip:
1. “Haydn Birth House”
2. “Josef Haydn”
3. “Random Man”
4. “Corn”
5. “Well”
6. “Kitchen”
7. “Piano Forte”
8. “Theater”
9. “Composition”
10. “Compisition”
11. “Haydn House”
12. “Vineyards”
13. “Lake”
14. “Rust, Austria”
15. “Pretty Door”
16. “Schönbrunn Palace”
17. “Window”
18. “Gold”
19. “Chapel”
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