things are coming quickly to a head around here. i'm scrabbling around, trying to get everything ready for my upcoming trip to WIEN (oh, i am so so so excited), and thought i'd start posting now to keep everyone abreast with what's going on.
by the way, this is normally the site of a blog i'm trying to get off the ground about living in baltimore....it should be pretty cool once i've returned to the states and pulled some stuff together...mostly, it will be about how to live the life you want in a city while you live paycheck to paycheck. like places to buy cheap but awesome jewelry and how to organize your books and closet by color (unfortunately, i'm not kidding about that one).
from here on out, though, this post will be about how i'm frantically getting ready for vienna....there are so many things i want to try and fit in while i'm there.
here is a list of places i will DEFINITELY be visiting:
- international gustav mahler society (they have a library that is taking some time to persuade them they should open on days other than mondays for my "special research needs" ;) )
- galerie belvedere (largest klimt collection in the world, including the painting i'm writing on: wasserschlangen i)
- arnold schönberg center (they moved his archives from the us to vienna about ten? years ago....i'll be spending time in their archive)
- schönberg-haus in mödling
- the secession pavilion (the site of the secessionist exhibitions. this also houses the klimt beethoven frieze, which is HUGE)
- the leopold museum (besides having a large collection of schiele and some klimt, they are currently running an exhibition called "wien 1900. jungendstil, wiener werstätte")
- the klee exhibit at the albertina museum
- the kunsthistorisches museum (this one is for pure pleasure. they house works by velasquez, bruegel the elder, rubens, and dürer. yay!)
- the free music film festival at the wiener rathausplatz (they show a different music film every night throughout july and august....i'm planning on seeing der nussknacker, brucker 9, firebird and le sacre de printemps, and la boheme)
- visiting the zentralfriedhof (thanks to sami's tip....i will be visiting with brahms, beethoven, mozart, and schönberg while i'm here...le sigh....)
- the haus der musik (i've never been to a classical music museum before!!!)
here are some ideas of other stuff i want to do, but may not because of their distance and/or they cost too much:
- every friday, there's a concert of one of schubert's song cycles in the building that used to be his house. sounds AMAZING, but the tickets are 25 euros for students
- every thursday and friday, there's a performance of mozart's requiem at karlskirche, but the tickets are even more expensive than the one for schubert's concert
- i kind of want to go to salzburg. i just....can't justify the time, since i need to be focusing on the project. i also can't justify the money. :(
that's about it for now....i should return to scheduling and lists and frustrating things like that...i'll try to keep updating as much as possible, but the truly exciting things won't start happening until july 7th!
heart,
becca
