Straight from rehearsal at the Walmer Centre onto the bus to go to Pearson International Airport... Some members of the orchestra who live in Etobicoke zipped home and then arrived at the airport on their own, but most people loaded in right after reheasal. (From left: Emily Hau, Tony Rapoport, Martin Bazarian, Mary-Beth Brown, Julian Knight, Sarah Findlay Boyer, Nurhan Arman, Xiaohan Guo, Liza McLellan, Praise Lam, Phoebe Tsang)
Calum and Margaret waiting to get the doublebass released from the "Bulky Baggage" department on arrival in Frankfurt Tuesday morning... Flying one instrument internationally can almost cause more tricky details and long procedures than an orchestra's entire roster of people!
Ground transport service! Andras Weber helps Sarah get to the bus.
(Looking on, from left: Nurhan, local tour organizer Raffi Geliboluoglu and Calum)
Only 3 months old and already a seasoned traveller... The youngest member of the tour is Christine, daughter of violinist Albina Molodozhan and her husband Chris Krawczyk. She was a perfect passenger throughout the Lufthansa flight and on the two-hour bus trip from Frankfurt to Fulda.
A late morning arrival in Fulda left us time for a rest, lunch, and a guided tour of the famous Residence-Palace of the Prince-Bishops of Fulda, just a block from the hotel. One of the most spectacular rooms in the wing of the Palace open as a museum is the Cabinet of Mirrors, with 240 mirror inserts in the walls and ceiling as well as numerous gilt-framed paintings. The highest High-Baroque style!
A resident Palace orchestra... The museum includes porcelain figurines made in Fulda in the 18th Century and collected by the Prince-Bishops, eventually re-purchased from collections around Europe. These musicians are conductorless, though, because the conductor figurine is still in a private collection in Switzerland!
Everyone had dinner shortly after the Residence-Palace tour and went to sleep early, to beat their jetlag and be ready for rehearsal and the first concert on Wednesday. (East view from the hotel)
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