Interactive Poll: Where Musicians Don't Interact

1) Haendel: I remember that Ozgur has already proposed a piece of Haendel, it was taken from Water Music, and I voted for it, because Haeandel's Water Music was one of my favorite classical music during my youth. Here, on the other hand, Ozgur offers us a slow piece for harpsichord, a plucked string instrument whose sound I really like. The atmosphere is clear and sweet as often happens in baroque music, very intimate and sophysticated, perhaps without reaching ecstasy. Definitely a refined piece. I dont know if I will vote for Haendel again.

2) Wintergatan. Beautiful video, where you can see this handcrafted machinery, the Marble Machine (actually a natural synthesizer, but connected to an electric guitar to simulate the rhythm section: drums and bass). The machine is extraordinary in its versatility, and the musician could be compared to a carpenter. A miracle of musical arrangement. However, if I limit myself to listening to the music produced, the pleasure in listening is not as great as the pleasure of seeing the video (or it is not as great as the surprise of seeing this musical machine, which is truly a brilliant invention).

I traveled by car through Switzerland to go to Germany twice. I remember the steps of San Bernardo and San Bernardino. I remember a motorway restaurant named Heidi.

I visited Locarno and Hermann Hesse's house in Montagnola.

I stayed for 5 days in Dornach (train to Basel plus tram that takes you out of town), in a house in front of Rudolf Steiner's Goetheanum, which I visited far and wide. But I don't know German! I taught 3 years in a Steiner's high school in Milan, the only Steiner's high school in Italy.

I stayed 4 days in Geneva (direct train from Milan). Gorgeous. Then I took with difficulty (I could not find the stop, and it was night) a bus that was going to Annecy.