NOTTARA MUSEUM
NOTTARA MUSEUM The Romanian composer, violinist, conductor and critic Constantin C. Nottara (1890-1951) was the son of a much-admired actor, Constantin I. Nottara. Part of the Bucharest house where …
LYSENKO MUSEUM
LYSENKO MUSEUM Mykola Vitaliyovych Lysenko, Ukraine’s greatest national composer, is generously commemorated in Kiev, where he spent most of his life: by a museum, a concert hall, a street …
SCHUMANN MUSEUM
SCHUMANN MUSEUM The Schumann family had lived for generations in Zwickau, a Saxon town south of Leipzig, not far from the German-Czech border, when Robert was born on 8 …
MENAI SUSPENSION BRIDGE MAP
MENAI SUSPENSION BRIDGE MAP FIRST MAJOR SUSPENSION BRIDGE MAP; LONGEST SUSPENSION BRIDGE MAP 1826-1834 Crossing Menai Strait, Anglesey, Wales Designer/Engineer Thomas Telford Completed 1826 Span 579 feet (176 meters) …
Myanmar Burma Map
The route around the city was a dreadful fifteen-kilometre jolting track that took forever in the tuk tuk. There wasn’t a lot to see a city entrance gate, a …
NIELSEN MUSEUM
NIELSEN MUSEUM Carl Nielsen spent most of his life in Copenhagen. But when his heirs decided to set up a museum to him they turned to Odense, the city …
KOSCHAT MUSEUM
KOSCHAT MUSEUM Thomas Koschat, the Austrian bass singer who brought Carinthian folksong to a wide audience through his performances, arrangements and compositions, still has a small but dedicated following …
EINEM MUSEUM
EINEM MUSEUM The Austrian composer Gottfried von Einem spent most of his years from the early 1950s onwards based in Vienna (he was born in 1918), and he finally …
ROSSINI MUSEUM
ROSSINI MUSEUM The legacy of Gioachino Rossini is important to Pesaro, a handsome city on the Adriatic coast some 40 km south of Rimini. The local music conservatory, which …
CATASTROPHE BRIDGE MAP
CATASTROPHE BRIDGE MAP In October 2007, dozens of Twin Cities residents gathered to discuss a new bridge between Minneapolis and St. Paul. Their feedback would help the designers of …