Join Wellesley alumnae and
friends aboard the M. V. Casanova for a cruise along the Danube. We will
be accompanied by Christopher Krueger, former Wellesley professor and
an accomplished flutist, and his wife, Jane Bryden, Iva Dee Hiatt Professor
of Music at Smith College, a distinguished advocate of chamber music.
Nancy Hermiston, a Canadian lyric coloratura and one of Europe’s
most versatile vocal artists and Olivier Bernier, published arts lecturer,
historian, and tour leader from the Metropolitan Museum of Art will also
join us. Together, they will enrich our program with a series of discussions
and performances en route. In addition, we will be sharing this program
with travelers from Bryn Mawr College, the Metropolitan Museum of Art,
and Smith College.
The journey will begin with three
nights in the baroque city of Salzburg, a UNESCO
World Heritage site. We will visit the Mozart
Museum, once the Mozart family home,
and see the Residenz, where the young Wolfgang
Amadeus often performed.
Traveling through the Alpine countryside, we will pay a visit to the castle
of Herrenchiemsee, a replica of Versailles
built on an island. While
there, we will stroll through the French gardens
and take horse-drawn
carriages to a restaurant for lunch. In Passau, we will tour St. Stephen’s
Cathedral, which houses the world’s largest pipe organ, before embarking
aboard the M. V. Casanova for our seven-night cruise.
In Melk, we will step
ashore to visit the magnificent baroque monastery before continuing on
to Dürnstein, with its medieval cobblestone
streets and 16th- to 18th-century architecture. We are guests at the 11th-century
Clam Castle for a reception. Then, the Casanova will cruise to Vienna through
the beautiful Wachau Valley and dock there for two nights.
In Vienna,
we will enjoy an architectural tour along the Ringstrasse, attend a training
performance of the famed Lipizzaner Stallions, and view the collections
at the Kunsthistorisches Museum. We will continue to the Slovakian capital
of Bratislava, visiting the restored Mirbach Palace and finally disembark
in Budapest, the Hungarian capital.
We hope you will join us for this
opportunity to enjoy both the musical legacy
of these riverside regions as well as
live performances. With comfortable
accommodations on board, guidance from talented academic leadership,
and a well-paced schedule, this journey promises
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Christopher Krueger member of the Wellesley faculty
from 1977–1999, has performed as
principal flutist with the Boston Symphony, the Orpheus
Chamber Orchestra, and the Opera Company of Boston,
and is a member of Collage New Music
and Emmanuel Music. He has been a soloist at Lincoln
Center, Tanglewood, and throughout North America
and Europe. He is a member of the Bach Ensemble
and the Aulos Ensemble, and is principal flutist
with the Boston Baroque and Handel and Haydn Society. He
is Assistant Professor of Music at the
University of Massachusetts at Amherst, and is on
the faculty of New England Conservatory and Boston University.
Jane Bryden is a distinguished advocate
of chamber music and Iva Dee Hiatt Professor of Music at Smith
College. She has appeared with the Kennedy Center Chamber
Players, St. Luke’s
Chamber Ensemble, Tafelmusik, Emmanuel Music, the
Boston Symphony, and the
New York Philharmonic.
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