The Legendary Danube
September 2-13, 2009
Cost: From $3,247 per person
Tour Operator: Avalon Waterways
Early booking deadline - reserve by Mar. 15 and save $100 per person!
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Spend three nights in Prague, and then enjoy a 7-night cruise from Nuremberg to Budapest on this 12-day journey. A tour of Prague shows you the main sights, with plenty of time at leisure to explore on your own. Travel by motorcoach to Nuremberg to board your ship. Leave the final stretch of the fascinating Main-Danube Canal to arrive in Regensburg for a guided visit of one of Germany's best-preserved medieval cities. You will delight in guided sightseeing of Passau, Melk's magnificent Benedictine Abbey, and exploration in romantic Vienna. End in Budapest to the sound of Gypsy violins.

We are sharing this trip with alumni from several other schools, including MIT, Columbia, Cal Berkeley, Georgetown and Rice.

Lecturer: Deborah Bradley-Kramer, Adjunct Assistant Professor of Music and Director of Music Performance at Columbia University.

Born in Houston, Texas, she earned her Ph.D. from New York University in piano performance with a focus on ethnomusicology and graduated from the European Mozart Academy (Prague/Salzburg). In 1997 she formed The Moebius Ensemble, a group that has met with wide critical acclaim and is dedicated to fostering exchanges between musicians and composers of Eastern Europe and the United States, and assisting emerging composers through commissions and performances at international festivals. She has concertized throughout Central and Eastern Europe, Scandinavia, the United States, Asia and Israel in solo, orchestra, and chamber performances. Bradley-Kramer has recently appeared with the Cleveland Chamber Orchestra, the St. Petersburg Symphony and the Iasi (Romania) Philharmonic in performances of Remembrance of a People, composed by her late husband and former Columbia professor, Jonathan Kramer. The Moebius Ensemble has just recorded a CD of Jonathan Kramer's chamber music compositions. Bradley-Kramer frequently lectures and writes on subjects such as Russian and Jewish music and postmodernism in 20th Century piano music.