TRAVEL POLICY
TRAVEL POLICY
TRAVEL POLICY
TRAVEL POLICY
TRAVEL POLICY
TRAVEL POLICY
Ready to start on your Artful Journey?
Our trips provide you with the most interesting cultural and artistic experiences. Our policy has been developed over time to provide you with concrete information about the operation of Artful Journeys and its impact on you, the traveler.
Ready to start on your Artful Journey?
Our trips provide you with the most interesting cultural and artistic experiences. Our policy has been developed over time to provide you with concrete information about the operation of Artful Journeys and its impact on you, the traveler.
Ready to start on your Artful Journey?
Our trips provide you with the most interesting cultural and artistic experiences. Our policy has been developed over time to provide you with concrete information about the operation of Artful Journeys and its impact on you, the traveler.
Ready to start on your Artful Journey?
Our trips provide you with the most interesting cultural and artistic experiences. Our policy has been developed over time to provide you with concrete information about the operation of Artful Journeys and its impact on you, the traveler.
Ready to start on your Artful Journey?
Our trips provide you with the most interesting cultural and artistic experiences. Our policy has been developed over time to provide you with concrete information about the operation of Artful Journeys and its impact on you, the traveler.
Included in Price
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Lodging (double occupancy). The single supplement fee varies for each trip.
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All breakfasts, and most other meals.
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Airport transfers and ground transportation (in Europe) to scheduled activities (unless by foot).
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Performances/Activities: as stated.
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Museum entry fees and tours.
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Support of co-hosts and administration fees.
Included in Price
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Lodging (double occupancy). The single supplement fee varies for each trip.
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All breakfasts, and most other meals.
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Airport transfers and ground transportation (in Europe) to scheduled activities (unless by foot).
-
Performances/Activities: as stated.
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Museum entry fees and tours.
-
Support of co-hosts and administration fees.
Included in Price
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Lodging (double occupancy). The single supplement fee varies for each trip.
-
All breakfasts, and most other meals.
-
Airport transfers and ground transportation (in Europe) to scheduled activities (unless by foot).
-
Performances/Activities: as stated.
-
Museum entry fees and tours.
-
Support of co-hosts and administration fees.
Excluded in Price
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Airfare from the departure point to Europe and the return flight.
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Personal purchases and pampering.
Excluded in Price
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Airfare from the departure point to Europe and the return flight.
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Personal purchases and pampering.
PROJECTS
PROJECTS
PROJECTS
Passport to Italy
2025 TRIPS
We are working on the schedule of trips for 2025. We really are
offering you many music trips for the coming year (maybe too
many from which to choose!). All the details haven’t been figured
out yet, but here’s the list:
All 2025 trips are subject to change due to COVID-19 developments.
Netherlands Bach Society
December 31, 2024 - January 7, 2025
Trip Description:
A special trip to the Netherlands to participate very quietly in the recording of Bach’s Weihnachts Oratorio (part 4-6) and BWV 1 by the Netherlands Bach Society, which is recording all of Bach’s works! Miguel Rodé will be our guide. When time allows, we’ll train from Hilversum to larger towns to catch some Dutch visual art.
Trip Status: OPEN
Maybe at the end of January: the newly minted Seattle Bachfest –
to be determined.
Passport to Italy
March 24 - April 3, 2025
Trip Description:
A fundraising trip for the Cape Symphony Orchestra. Joe Marchio will be our guide. Stay in Reggio Emilia (with my dear friend Umberto) and in Milan, where we’ll visit, at the very least, La Scala, Ansaldo, Scala’s production facility, a very special piano collection, a private art collection, and
museums. Also, out-of-town excursions will take us to Cremona and Parma. Joe will regale us with stories and music of Monteverdi, Puccini, Verdi, Vivaldi, Donizetti and more.
Trip Status: OPEN
Painting in Italy: with Lynn Goldstein
October 2 - 9, 2025
Trip Description:
Join Lynn as she helps you to concentrate on creating compelling paintings using innovative techniques, experimenting with color, and interpreting the landscape through shape and pattern. Learn how to simplify the vast natural beauty of Italy and find the perfect subjects to paint or draw.
Trip Status: Not yet open
A weekend in April (or early May); an invitation-only poetry retreat
Bachfest Leipzig
June 11 - 23, 2025
Trip Description:
The theme for 2025 is Transformation: how Bach reshaped many
times of his own and others’ compositions and musical
techniques. This should be a fascinating journey of listening.
Some of the heavy hitters performing: Ton Koopman and his
Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra; Solomon’s Knot, who put on an
extraordinary performance of the St. Matthew Passion in 2023;
tenor Daniel Johannsen and soprano Miriam Feuersinger; and
winners of the 2025 Bach Competition Leipzig . Also, for me, a long
ago German lit major in college, the performance of Bachs Faust,
in Auerbachs Keller, which is the place that Goethe actually wrote
the play, is a blockbuster.
Trip Status: Not yet open
Lofoten Music Festival, Svolvaer Norway
July 4 - 18, 2025
Trip Description:
From our foray there (almost within the Arctic Circle) in 2018, not
only was the music wonderful, but the living experience there was
extremely happy. 28 minutes of grayish night didn’t bother us at all; the daylight, temperate climate, beautiful water and mountains, tasty salmon, gjetost (brown goat cheese which I grew on, being ¼ Norwegian), our companions and my cousin Trond all contributed to the feeling of wellbeing and happiness. We hope we can duplicate this again in 2025. Trond is ready for us! The festival is only 5 or 6 days long, but we will also go to Oslo, with a look at what other small and medium-sized cities have to offer.
Trip Status: Not yet open
May 27–June 4, 2021
German Composers: with Joe Marchio
September - October, TBD
Trip Description:
We’ll head to Hamburg, Berlin and Leipzig to learn more about
Beethoven, Brahms, Bach, Mendelssohn, Luther, Hildegard von
Bingen, maybe a bit about Wagner, and we’ll have to flirt with the
great German writers, Goethe and Schiller at the very least. In
Berlin, we’ll spend a couple of days on Museum Island, home of 5
incredible museums. Unfortunately, the Pergamon is closed due to
construction. However, a temporary Pergamon is open. From
Leipzig, we’ll train to Wittenberg and perhaps to Dresden, to visit
the Marienkirche, the Zwinger and the Semperoper.
Trip Status: not yet open
May 27–June 4, 2021
October: Dates and Place to be determined: A Retreat for Baroque Period Instrumentalists.
I’ll get back as soon as possible with firm dates, hotels, places,
prices and more details.
In the meantime, I hope at least one of
these musical journeys will entice you to join an Artful Journey.
Please be aware: this list is subject to some changes…