Pipedreams Spain 2013 Tour

15/01/2020

delight in the historic sounds of modest and monumental instruments in Mexico City and Oaxaca province.

12/06/2019

the delightful and sun-shiney music of the gifted Spanish virtuoso and priest, Padre Antonio Soler.

25/02/2016

In the "Museu de la Musica" in Barcelona we have three beautiful instruments that we can play today. The first one is the most singular: the claviorgan.…

30/03/2015

Remember meeting Loreto Aramendi at Órgano Cavaillé-Coll de la Basílica Santa María de Donostia-San Sebastián well she came and visited Brooklyn two weeks ago. This is her live in recital. www.olrbrooklyn.org/pipeorgan

15/10/2013

The next PIPEDREAMS tour will be to Switzerland (mid May 2014). To get more information, email Janet Tollund at Group Travel directors ([email protected]).

28/05/2013

With an extra free day, we walked about in the city.

28/05/2013

Each Pipedreams Tour ends with a traditional 'group feed', with the usual speachifying and happy companionship. Seemed at the beginning that we would have infinite time together...and then it was finished!

28/05/2013

We visited the Auditorio Nacional de Madrid on two occasions, for an evening concert performance with choir, soloists and orchestra (no organ), and the next afternoon for a special visit to the Grenzing organ. Before the creation of this arts complex (which also includes a chamber music hall with its own smaller Grenzing organ, sadly unused and not maintained), symphonic concerts took place at the Theatro Real. This was the final 'organ visit' of our tour...with demonstration provided by Andreas Cea and a benediction improvised by our own Merrill N. "Jeff" Davis III.

27/05/2013

The Pontifical Basilica of Saint Michael stands adjacent the Archbishop's palace, was constructed between 1739 and 1745, commissioned and subsidized by the (wealthy) Cardinal Infante Luis of Chinchon, Archbishop of Toledo. Boccherini had been buried here, though Mussolini 'repatriated' the composer's remains in 1927 to Lucca.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Michael%27s_Basilica_%28Madrid%29

27/05/2013

Our tour's final day began with a visit to the Fine Arts Academy, in a beautiful small recital hall of which is a 33-stop neo-classic organ of Spanish-influenced eclectic tonal design by Blancafort. Andreas Cea demonstrated.

27/05/2013

26/05/2013

Though one could spend many hours exploring the artistic details of the Toledo Cathedral, here are some excerpts.