Wednesday, August 10, 2011

8 August- Day 45

Today, headed off to the Bode-Musem. Unfortunately, I did not enjoy it at all. Possibly the worst museum I've been to this summer, excluding the Bauhaus museums. (Actually they might have been better.) It's actually a very nice museum, even though it costs €4 to get in as a student. I'm not a big fan of this type of art though, so I guess I probably just should have gone somewhere else. Anyway, it's one of the 5 Museums-Insel museums, and focuses on Byzantine art, plus a little bit of extra stuff from all over the place. I'm assuming it's another collection of stuff that the Prussian nobility managed to hoard up. Everything looked the same to me though. So... I've picked out 3 favorites to show you (excluding that cute little peeing statue from Friday's post)

Bode-Museum

Inside, plus a great view of a horse's ass

The next statue was my favorite in the museum. It's supposed to be the Greek/Roman (not sure) goddess Hecate. This looks like a very very normal statue, and it's pretty tiny, and just sitting in this glass case. Then you go around to sides, and realize...

Young woman face

Old lady face

Child's face

That she has three faces! They're supposed to represent either the fates, or more likely, the 3 stages of life or something. They weren't particularly sure that it was Hecate as well-- she's holding Hecate's signature items, but this is the only time they've seen her with 3 faces so who knows.

Too sexy for his shirt...?
Apparently so.
It's Bacchus.
Ladies?


Byzantine gambling machine.
Not even joking


After that, the museum closed, and I went to grab a coffee and sit around for an hour before our concert was supposed to start. It was so far to my house from the concert hall, and I wanted to go see a museum, so I just didn't get home until.. midnight.

It was worth it though. We saw a youth orchestra, the Orkester Norden, playing in this grand (and square--terrible acoustics without acoustics I assume) concert all am Gendarmenmarkt. They were competing in the Young Euro Classic, and so they went all out. It was positively amazing.
  • Jan Erik Mikalsen: Parts
  • Rachmaninov: Piano Concerto No. 3
  • Sibelius: Symphony No. 5
Jan Eirk Mikalsen was actually seated in the audience-- I believe this was the premiere of his piece, or something to that effect, because he came out on stage.

They played Germans have an (unfortunate) love of coming out again and again for more applause. I swear, every show I've been to so far... they've really dragged out the applause until people start to stop clapping cause their arms feel like they're gonna fall off.

The encore was actually my favorite piece of the whole night. They dedicated it to the victims of the shooting in Oslo, and played a Norwegian piece. Geirr Tveitt- Velkomne med Æra, which apparently means "Welcome with Honor" or something to that effect. It's unbelievably enchanting. I highly encourage you to listen to it below. That's actually the orchestra that played it as well- it looks like that was their encore last year?



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