Enjoying our time together

It was a very good tour!

On the bus, traveling from city to city, at the opera, sharing a meal, touring a town, singing, rehearsing, -- all were opportunities for the singers and the supportive "roadies" to get to know each other better. Good moments, great music, good people....and good food and drink.

Early morning, Amsterdam Airport, waiting for our flight to Warsaw

(left) Looking good!  On the bus from the airport to a city tour of Warsaw, on very little sleep.

 Selfies, happy to have arrived in Warsaw

Post-concert euphoria

Pre-concert anticipation; Bonita Lahey, Voices West,  in the Cathedral Garden

 mmmmm....plane food was ok, but it's time for a warm Polish pastry (Norma Lucas in Old Town, Warsaw).

 Warsaw Hotel saw to our every (chocolate) need

Chorale supporters and friends relax after a long travel day. (Maxine Mark, Celia Walker, and Carole Oldemeyer)

Polish is NOT an easy language to decipher! But Emily and John still managed to make a delicious choice.

Jim Packard, LC, enjoying lunch on the Krakow square.

Bus break!

The guys, minus the tenorettes

 Jane and two birthday girls (Emily and Celia)

Did someone send out a "wear tourquoise" memo? 

Larry and Wendy Fenske with Peggy and David Lindstrom

 John Spencer and Norma Lucas

 Alex's 200-year-old cello always had a reserved seat on the bus -- a window seat to provide head support for a cello nap.  (John Spencer named the cello "Delilah," a name that Alex found charming, or at least, amusing!)

That's road food, in a truck-stop type of place!  Even the coffee was great!

John Spencer getting the story down.

Sylvia, Patterson, artful and attentive  photographer

Polish breakfast protein, a hard-to-resist display

 Judy Cuthbertson, getting that perfect shot before our Wroclaw concert

Dont' know the meaning of the sculpture (the prone head looks ominous), but it lent an artistic touch to this Leipzig- yellow courtyard wall. 

(left) Klezmer singer in Kazimierz, Krakow.  Lovely music for dining alfresco  on a summer evening.

Time traveler in Krakow

 "White" borscht (cold beet soup -- divine....)

 "Red Boscht" -- clear beet broth with dumplings.  Also divine.

Our fans in Wroclaw, Terry and Edjo (Edward) Keenan 

 

David Morse (above), capturing the way the early morning light looks on the flowers in Krakow.

If the coffee is good, Jane Viste will sit down with anyone!

Peggy Lindstrom and Judy Cuthbertson -- a seriously good meal followed by serious conversation

 Beverage of the tour .....

 Elaine Gutcher, alto, ready to sing

Pre-concert instructions -- attention will be paid!

 Liver, onions, apple slices and mashed potatoes rarely look like art, but these did.

A typical afternoon snack in Leipzig -- typical for some of us, that is!

Elaine Gutcher (alto) and three Chorale friends (Brian Gutcher, Celia Walker and Carole Oldemeyer) enjoy the ambiance of Liepzig at the Coffee Baum, the cafe that Robert Schumann frequented.

TRIVIA QUESTION!!

How did Johann Sebastian Bach die? 

 "A stroke" you might say.  And that may be true.  But there is also evidence that a few months before he died, attempting to improve his weakened vision, he had a newly discovered surgery to remove cataracts.  Afterward, he developed a bad infection and his stroke followed soon after that.  Too bad he didn't have a Health Care Exchange to compare doctors...

More to that.... Wagner also had diminishing vision, heard about this surgery, and, under the care of the same eye doctor, had the same surgery. He too developed post-surgical infection and died soon after.

INTERESTING.....maybe next time

Our Tour guide's bag.  We THINK it might say "I love Polish Music!" We do too. 

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