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Passport to Italy

2025 TRIPS

We are working on the schedule of trips for 2025. We really are
offering you many music trips for the coming year (maybe too
many from which to choose!). All the details haven’t been figured
out yet, but here’s the list:

All 2025 trips are subject to change due to COVID-19 developments.

Netherlands
Netherlands Bach Society
December 31, 2024 - January 7, 2025
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Trip Description: 
A special trip to the Netherlands to participate very quietly in the recording of Bach’s Weihnachts Oratorio (part 4-6) and BWV 1 by the Netherlands Bach Society, which is recording all of Bach’s works! Miguel Rodé will be our guide. When time allows, we’ll train from Hilversum to larger towns to catch some Dutch visual art.

Trip Status: WAITING LIST ONLY
Maybe at the end of January: the newly minted Seattle Bachfest –
to be determined. 
Italy

Passport to Italy
 

March 24 - April 3, 2025
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Trip Description: 
A fundraising trip for the Cape Symphony Orchestra. Joe Marchio will be our guide. Stay in Reggio Emilia (with my dear friend Umberto) and in Milan, where we’ll visit, at the very least, La Scala, Ansaldo, Scala’s production facility, a very special piano collection, a private art collection, and
museums. Also, out-of-town excursions will take us to Cremona and Parma. Joe will regale us with stories and music of Monteverdi, Puccini, Verdi, Vivaldi, Donizetti and more.
Trip Status: OPEN
Painting

Painting in Italy: with Lynn Goldstein 

October 2 - 9, 2025

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Trip Description:

Join Lynn as she helps you to concentrate on creating compelling paintings using innovative techniques, experimenting with color, and interpreting the landscape through shape and pattern.  Learn how to simplify the vast natural beauty of Italy and find the perfect subjects to paint or draw.

Trip Status:  Not yet open

A weekend in April (or early May); an invitation-only poetry retreat

Bachfest

Bachfest Leipzig

June 11 - 23, 2025

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Trip Description:

The theme for 2025 is Transformation: how Bach reshaped many
times of his own and others’ compositions and musical
techniques. This should be a fascinating journey of listening.
Some of the heavy hitters performing: Ton Koopman and his
Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra; Solomon’s Knot, who put on an
extraordinary performance of the St. Matthew Passion in 2023;
tenor Daniel Johannsen and soprano Miriam Feuersinger; and
winners of the 2025 Bach Competition Leipzig . Also, for me, a long
ago German lit major in college, the performance of Bachs Faust,
in Auerbachs Keller, which is the place that Goethe actually wrote
the play, is a blockbuster.

Trip Status: Not yet open

More Information to come
Norway

Lofoten Music Festival, Svolvaer Norway

July 4 - 18, 2025

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Trip Description:

From our foray there (almost within the Arctic Circle) in 2018, not
only was the music wonderful, but the living experience there was
extremely happy. 28 minutes of grayish night didn’t bother us at all; the daylight, temperate climate, beautiful water and mountains, tasty salmon, gjetost (brown goat cheese which I grew on, being ¼ Norwegian), our companions and my cousin Trond all contributed to the feeling of wellbeing and happiness. We hope we can duplicate this again in 2025. Trond is ready for us! The festival is only 5 or 6 days long, but we will also go to Oslo, with a look at what other small and medium-sized cities have to offer.

Trip Status: Not yet open

May 27–June 4, 2021

More Information to come
German Composers

German Composers: with Joe Marchio

September - October, TBD

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Trip Description:

We’ll head to Hamburg, Berlin and Leipzig to learn more about
Beethoven, Brahms, Bach, Mendelssohn, Luther, Hildegard von
Bingen, maybe a bit about Wagner, and we’ll have to flirt with the
great German writers, Goethe and Schiller at the very least. In
Berlin, we’ll spend a couple of days on Museum Island, home of 5
incredible museums. Unfortunately, the Pergamon is closed due to
construction. However, a temporary Pergamon is open. From
Leipzig, we’ll train to Wittenberg and perhaps to Dresden, to visit
the Marienkirche, the Zwinger and the Semperoper.

Trip Status: not yet open

May 27–June 4, 2021

More Information to come

October: Dates and Place to be determined: A Retreat for Baroque Period Instrumentalists.

I’ll get back as soon as possible with firm dates, hotels, places,
prices and more details.

 

In the meantime, I hope at least one of
these musical journeys will entice you to join an Artful Journey.

Please be aware: this list is subject to some changes…

Covid vaccinations and/or negative tests are required in the EU.  

Any trip cancelled due to covid is subject to a $125 fee per person.  All other paid monies will be refunded.

Most trips have limited enrollment. To reserve your spot, please register by clicking below:
For details or questions, please click here to contact Joan Hill.
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