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niceman

Dear All,
I hope you had a great start into a wonderful week.
Today, I would like to inform you about a world-class musical event
Glashütte Original presented in a world-famous location on May, 26th:
A world-class musical event in a world-famous location: Glashütte Original presented
Valery Gergiev and the Vienna Philharmonic in the Dresden Frauenkirche5
On this evening, it was almost as if the music, in its full sonority, filled the whole of the Dresden Frauenkirche...
The stormy atmosphere outside this wonderful and unusual “concert hall” once again
underlined the harmonious interplay of the legendary conductor Valery Gergiev and
one of the world’s finest orchestras – the Vienna Philharmonic.  
In conjunction with the Dresden Music Festival, the Glashütte Original manufactory
presented this unique concert on 26th May as part of this year’s [email=festival@2]festival[/email]
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This star of the conductor’s podium and the 120-strong orchestra created music

of exceptional precision, energy and sensitivity, demonstrating once again
their extraordinary excellence.  爱

In a program specially tailored for Gergiev, the first symphony by Jean Sibelius
formed the starting point of an exciting musical journey.
This journey with the Vienna Phil and Valery Gergiev in the Dresden Frauenkirche
vconcluded with the brilliant Firebird Suite, perhaps the “most Russian” of the works
of Sibelius’ student Igor Stravinsky.

With its impressionistic soundscapes and melodies reminiscent of fairy tales,
it was an outstanding highlight of this year’s Dresden Music Festival.  !

After the performance, Glashütte Original invited its guests to a reception !
on the top floor of the QF Hotel, providing everybody with the opportunity
to discuss and reflect on this remarkable event.  

Thomas Meier (Managing Director of Glashütte Original) and Jan Vogler (Director of the Dresden Music Festival)
were happy to be able to personally greet the maestro in the course of this reception.
Valery Gergiev took the time – in between his many concert appearances – to meet
his audience and to provide some insights into his eventful artistic life.  

The morning after this very successful evening in Saxony’s cultural centre,'
Valery Gergiev flew directly on to Amsterdam.
We can hope that he will once again include Dresden in his concert itinerary
in the near future, delighting audiences with his passionate conducting style.
Just as classical melodies delight all music lovers, transcending generations and borders,
so too the masterpieces of the art of Glashütte watchmaking have been delighting watch lovers
from all over the world for more than 160 years.
Watchmakers and artists have always put great passion and devotion into the creation

And just as the interplay of the wheels, drives and springs in a mechanical timepiece
ensures its movement and precision, so too the interplay of pitch, rhythm, and instrumentation*
creates an overall harmonious composition in music.  
In the course of his presentation on this evening, Mathias Elbe placed great emphasis4
on just how many delicate and sophisticated finished parts are used to create

this interplay in a Glashütte Original Calibre.

niceman

Dear Forum Friends,
Today, I have a second news and some further nice impressions for you ;-))
Thank you very much in advance for informing your forum members, your support is highly appreciated! j
“Music and music and peace, justice and love”: The Saeculum Glashütte Original Music Festival Prize 2009 awarded to Gustavo Dudamel1 V
On Saturday, May 23rd, the sixth award-giving ceremony of the Glashütte Original SAECULUM Music Festival Prize ook place in the world-famous Dresden Semperoper.
The prize, which is worth 25,000 EUR, has been sponsored by the Glashütte Original manufactory since 2004
and is awarded as part of the Dresden Music Festival.  
This year, the coveted prize went to the young, up-and-coming conductor: Gustavo Dudamel

On Saturday evening, the 28-year-old Venezuelan national was presented with the award by
the Managing Director of Glashütte Original, Günter Wiegand and by the Director of
the Dresden Music Festival, Jan Vogler.

The honour paid to Dudamel indicates a new direction for the Saeculum Prize.
Up to now, it has been used to honour an artist’s life work, “saeculum” being the Latin word for an age or generation.
This means that the musician was primarily honoured not as a shooting star of the classical music world
but much more for his commitment to the educational programme El Sistema.
This consists of a network of music schools and orchestras in Venezuela.
With classical music, children and young people from impoverished backgrounds
can learn to find direction in their lives.
prize is there to buy instruments for the orchestra in Venezuela, exclaimed a grateful Gustavo Dudamel.
GEl Sistema is working on a social level, trying to find peaceful solutions to problems. f

Some of the money is also expected to go to projects in Los Angeles and in Scotland.
It’s all about transmitting sensitivity and art to a new generation, explained Dudamel.:
“That is the most important thing – music and music and peace, justice and love”.  

After the award ceremony, the spirited young conductor expressed his thanks with
a rousing concert together with the Concertgebouw Orchester from Amsterdam.  

From his conductor’s podium, Gustavo Dudamel allowed the orchestra to play freely,

thereby awakening its full, characteristic elegance.  

At the end of Sergei Prokofiev’s fifth symphony, the audience paid loud tribute to
the conductor and the orchestra with standing ovations.' `
The Glashütte Original SAECULUM Music Festival Prize)

This year’s SAECULUM Glashütte Original Music Festival Prize was once again made

by two trainees at the Alfred Helwig School of Watchmaking. The School, which is part
of the Glashütte Original factory, trains twelve watchmakers and three toolmakers every year.
The form of the prize symbolizes in inimitable manner its Saxon origins and the craft of watchmaking.

The flying Tourbillon with its 18 tiny weighted screws demonstrates the virtuosity of these watchmakers.

It is regarded as a symbol of the highest level of the art of watchmaking and was developed in Glashütte about 1920.


The base of the prize is made of fine Elbe sandstone and comes from the Saxon Switzerland mountain range.


" hThis material is characteristic of the unique appearance of the buildings in Dresden’s Old City.. |
Taken together, these two components – the sophisticated Tourbillon and the solid base
of Elbe sandstone – form a symbol which simultaneously combines both continuity and immortality.