Final Itinerary

 

Blackstone Valley Chorale
2008 Tour to BUDAPEST AND VIENNA
With extension program in VIENNA

Final Itinerary as PDF
Day 1
Sat June 28 		USA to BUDAPEST
  Depart Boston for Budapest.
Day 02
Sun June 29		 BUDAPEST
11.20 am Arrive Budapest
Meet your guide Ulrike DANNINGER and bus driver.
Transfer per private deluxe motor coach to Hotel
  Budapest offers breathtaking Old World grandeur and a thriving cultural life. Situated on both banks of the Danube River, the city unites the colourful hills of Buda and the wide, businesslike boulevards of Pest. Much of the charm of a visit to Budapest lies in unexpected glimpses into shadowy courtyards and in long vistas down sunlit cobbled streets. Although some 30,000 buildings were destroyed during World War II and in the 1956 Revolution, the past lingers on in the architectural details of the antique structures that remain.
14.00 pm Check-into your hotel
15.00 pm start chorus rehearsal at Glass Hall of Hotel Budapest
18.00 pm end of rehearsal
19.00 pm dinner at hotel restaurant
Overnight Budapest (1)
Day 03
Mon June 30		 BUDAPEST
8.00 am Breakfast at hotel
9.00 am start your half-day city tour of Budapest.

Explore Buda and Pest, and see the Buda Castle, the Fisherman's Bastion, the Hungarian Parliament and Heroes square
11.30 am end of city tour of Budapest.
12.00 am Lunch on own arrangements - time for shopping at Vaci Utca
14.00 pm meet and transfer to rehearsal at the seat of the orchestra
15.00 pm start rehearsal with soloists and chorus
18.00 pm end of rehearsal
18.15 pm transfer back to hotel
19.00 pm Dinner at hotel restaurant

Overnight Budapest (2)
Day 04
Tue July 01		 BUDAPEST
8.00 am Breakfast at hotel
9.00 am transfer to Liszt Academy
10.00 am dress rehearsal in the Liszt Academy with orchestra, chorus and soloists
13.00 pm end of rehearsal
13.15 pm lunch on own arrangements
15.00 pm return transfer to hotel
at leisure
18.00 pm transfer from Hotel to Liszt Academy
18.30 pm arrive Liszt Academy
19.30 pm Opening Concert performance at THE FRANZ LISZT ACADEMY
ROBERT PAGE FESTIVAL SINGERS in co-operation with BLACKSTONE VALLEY CHORALE, Budapest Concert Orchestra, Soloists conducted by Robert Page
21.45 pm transfer from Liszt Academy to local Restaurant
22.00 pm Dinner at Grand Hall of Restaurant Stefánia
23.30 pm return transfer to hotel

Overnight Budapest (3)
Day 05
Wed July 02		 BUDAPEST
8.00 am Breakfast at hotel
9.00 am shuttle transfers available
At leisure in Budapest
19.00 pm transfer from Hotel to Restaurant
20.00 pm Dinner at Citadella Restaurant
22.00 pm return transfer to hotel

Overnight Budapest (4)
Day 06
Thu July 3		 BUDAPEST TO VIENNA
8.00 am Breakfast at hotel
9.00 am Depart for Vienna
Arrive Vienna around lunch time
Lunch on own arrangements
  Vienna, one of the great capitals of Europe was for centuries home to the Habsburg rulers of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Today the empire is long gone, but many reminders of the city's imperial heyday remain, carefully preserved by the tradition-loving Viennese.
From the late 18th century on, Vienna's culture -- particularly its music -- was famous throughout Europe. Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert, Brahms, Strauss, Mahler, and Bruckner all lived in the city.
And at the tail end of the 19th century the city's artists and architects -- Gustav Klimt, Egon Schiele, Oskar Kokoschka, Josef Hoffmann, Otto Wagner, and Adolf Loos among them -- brought about an artistic revolution that swept away the past and set the stage for the radically experimental art of the 20th century.

 
14.00 pm Start your City tour of Vienna with your local guide and see Ring Avenue, the Hofburg Palace, the Opera House, St. Stephen's Cathedral, Mozart's "Figaro House", City Hall and Schoenbrunn Palace.

 

Enjoy a possible visit to the central cemetery (Honorary tombs of famous composers like Beethoven, Gluck, Schubert, Johann Strauss Father and Son, Lanner and Brahms).
17.30 pm check in hotel
19.00 pm transfer to local restaurant
19.30 pm Heurigen Dinner provided
21.30 pm return transfer to hotel

Overnight Vienna (5)
Day 07
Fri July 4		 VIENNA
8.00 am Breakfast at hotel
9.00 am shuttle transfers available
At leisure in Vienna - time for shopping
12.00 am lunch provided at local restaurant
13.00 pm return transfer to hotel from Albertina Platz
13.30 pm arrive hotel
14.00 pm Budapest Concert Orchestra arrives in Vienna and starts set-up
14.30 pm transfer from Hotel to St. Stephans Cathedral
15.30 pm start sound check
16.30 pm end of sound check
16.45 pm return to hotel
at leisure at hotel
19.00 pm transfer from Hotel to St. Stephans Cathedral
20.30 pm Evening Concert performance at ST. STEPHANS CATHEDRAL
ROBERT PAGE FESTIVAL SINGERS in co-operation with BLACKSTONE VALLEY CHORALE, Budapest Concert Orchestra, Soloists conducted by Robert Page
22.15 pm Reception with St. Stephans Cathedral representatives
23.00 pm transfer to hotel

Overnight Vienna (6)

 

 

3 DAY EXTENSION PROGRAM VIENNA
Exclusively for the Blackstone Valley Chorale
5 - 8 July 2008
Day 08
Sat July 5		 VIENNA
08.30 am Breakfast at hotel
10.00 am Depart hotel
11.00 am Arrive University of Music and start rehearsal
13.00 pm End of rehearsal and lunch on own arrangements in the City Center
14.30 pm Check-into your hotel
15.30 pm transfer to Concert Venue
16.45 pm Arrive Concert Venue and start rehearsal
18.00 pm Host choir arrives concert venue
18.45 pm End of rehearsal
19.00 pm JOINT EVENING CONCERT TOUR PERFORMANCE BY THE BLACKSTONE VALLEY CHORALE CONDUCTED BY ANDREW CLARK IN BERNDORF/ VEITSAU WITH CHORGEMEINSCHAFT BERNDORF/ VEITSAU
20.00 pm Dinner Reception with host choir and other invited musical groups and friends
21.30 pm Return transfer to hotel

Overnight Vienna (7)
Day 09
Sun July 6		 VIENNA
07.00 am Breakfast at hotel
08.00 am transfer to Michaelerkirche
08.45 am Start of Rehearsal
09.45 am End of Rehearsal (timing to be reconfirmed by the church)
10.00 am SUNDAY MASS PERFORMANCE BY THE BLACKSTONE VALLEY CHORALE CONDUCTED BY ANDREW CLARK AT THE MICHAELERKIRCHE
11.00 am Time for individual sightseeing and at leisure
return transfer to hotel

Overnight Vienna (8)
Day 10
Mon July 7		 VIENNA/ EISENSTADT
08.00 am Breakfast at hotel
09.30 am Morning at leisure in Vienna
12.00 pm Departure for the province Burgenland (bring concert attire and music)
  Arrive in Rohrau - see the birthplace of the world-famous composers Joseph and Michael Haydn, the Haydn Museum. Then continue to Eisenstadt - where Joseph Haydn lived for 30 years. Eisenstadt is the capital as well as the cultural and educational center of the province of Burgenland. This charming Baroque town - its buildings influenced by the Prince Esterhazy dynasty - is Austria's smallest and youngest provincial capital. Eisenstadt had its heyday in the 18th century when it was ruled by Prince Nikolaus Esterhazy.
See the Esterhazy Palace where Haydn conducted the court orchestra almost every evening, stop at Raiding, the birthplace of Franz Liszt and then, continue south to Bad Tatzmannsdorf.
17.30 pm Arrive in Bad Tatzmannsdorf
17.45 pm Start of Rehearsal
19.15 pm End of Rehearsal
19.30 pm EVENING CONCERT TOUR PERFORMANCE BY THE BLACKSTONE VALLEY CHORALE CONDUCTED BY ANDREW CLARK AT THE PFARRKIRCHE BAD TATZMANNSDORF
20.45 pm Farewell dinner provided at local Heuriger restaurant in Bad Tatzmannsdorf
22.00 pm End of Farewell dinner and return to Vienna

Overnight Vienna (9)
Day 11
Mon July 8		 VIENNA to BOSTON
04.30 am Pick up your Breakfast-Box and Check-out of the hotel
05.00 am
 Transfer to Vienna International Airport for your return flight back to the USA

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