MUSIC – The significance of Leipzig is so much more than the music of Johann Sebastian Bach. Here in the mid-18th century, as Cantor of the Thomaskirche, Bach composed most of his music. We enjoy listening to the students of the University playing the Bach organ (newly constructed to replicate the identical musical tones as …
You might say that we are privileged to receive keys of the city during our special sightseeing tour in Dresden today. My old friend, Fr Frank introduces us to another of his ‘colleagues’ from his years in the seminary. Fr Christian is a local man, not only well-versed and ready to explain all about this …
ooking back on the seventeen days spent in East European countries,I have an almost dizzying sense of so many experiences. Some uplifting and exciting; others more of a depressing nature. Up until twenty five years ago, these people were being oppressed under the evil yoke of Russia’s Communism; and before that the tyranny of the …
Görlitz is the easternmost city in Germany, and in contrast to most other historical German cities, it wasn’t severely destroyed during World War II. After Reunification, Görlitz emerged from under communist East German rule well preserved, but notably grey and colourless. Today, the town’s rich European architectural heritage (late Gothic, Renaissance, Baroque, Historicist, Art Nouveau), …