Category: Germany 2024

Today marked our final full day in Germany as well as our final concert of the trip! In the morning, we departed from the academy after breakfast to head to Mainz. Along the way, we made a stop at a lower viewpoint of Loreley Rock! We also made a stop to view a castle in…

Today was our most “touristy” day yet, but we still got some singing in! The singers had been looking forward to today for a long time, because today, we had a Rhine cruise and cable car ride to a fortress scheduled. Before we embarked on those, however, we traveled to a scenic vista called Loreley…

Today was a full day for the Cardinal Singers because it marked our lengthiest performance of the trip! After breakfast, a morning rehearsal, and lunch, we traveled to Darmstadt to sing at St. Ludwig Darmstadt. The commute from our lodging to the church is about 2 hours by bus, and when we arrived we got…

On trips like this, there are a few days that transcend all of your fondest hopes and dreams, days you’ll view as highlights of your life 50 years from now, and days you’ll have gratitude for that is hard to put into words. For the Cardinal Singers, today was one of those days. Today, we…

Today was a marvelous day of performing, rehearsing, and exploring the Koblenz area! After a breakfast at the music academy, we had about an hour and a half of morning rehearsal to keep refining our a cappella repertoire. Our rehearsal space overlooked the Rhine again, and I feel like I am residing in a fairy…

Today was largely a travel day, and we commuted across the country from Leipzig to the Koblenz area in western Germany. Koblenz means confluence, and the city appropriately sits at the confluence of the Rhine and Moselle rivers. I spent most of my day on trains today, first taking a 3-hour ICE train from Leipzig…

I find this hard to believe, but today marks the 7th installment of this blog! We had a full day to enjoy Leipzig, and Leipzig did not disappoint. After breakfast, the choir went to another religious service at Bachfest to hear the Sociedad Bach del Paraguay (Bach Society of Paraguay) perform two cantatas and a…

After yesterday’s exciting concert and late night, today was thankfully a very light day! We departed Berlin for Leipzig this morning at around 10:00 AM, and the commute was nowhere near as far (or delayed) as our commute from Frankfurt to Berlin. We arrived in Leipzig around 1:00 PM, and after settling in at our…

Today marked our final day in Berlin, and it was our most significant musical day yet! Our first schedule obligation was a three hour final rehearsal for our Mendelssohn Concert with the Junges Ensemble. The concert repertoire included Mendelssohn’s choral-orchestral works Psalm 42 and Die erste Walpurgisnacht, and the a cappella motet Denn er hat…

In comparison to the other trip days, today was the earliest ending yet, which is great because it allows me to publish this blog sooner and get to bed at a decent hour tonight! Our first scheduled obligation today was a combined rehearsal with the orchestra for the Mendelssohn Concert tomorrow at 1:00 PM, so…