Quite a few times the Camerata has travelled parts of the world where
bumping into tourists has been a pleasantly rare experience. Well, on
this concert tour, tourists could not be avoided in Greece, but
were rarely spotted in Albania.
Shown in the National Museum is how a typical albanian home
did look like. Of course, the real world nowadays looks differently
and even more, has undergone significant changes recently.
Right on our arrival day in Albania we had the first concert
in the conservatoire in Tirana. While rehearsing for the concert
one could gasp into the back yard.
Durres has an antique greec theatre. The lack of tourists is positive.
A goat is taking care of keeping the grass low in the area.
Wandering around one may evenually come across other historic monuments.
It is interesting to see in this example how the balance between sculpure and
decorative elements is maintained.
Here we performed our Durres concert.
After a full day's drive we had reached Sarandë in the south
of Albania. The greec island of Kerkyra is just opposite, and
even tourists can easily come here for a day's visit.
New restaurants and hotels are mushrooming while you still
can experience this particular atmosphere which is so specific to Albania.
The next day, after one hour on the boat we arrived in Korfu and
were back in the European Union. But strangely, all the time we had never
left Europe.
On Naxos we had an open air concert in the Kastro of the main town
Hora. Before catching the ferry back to the mainland the next evening,
we had time to learn about the culture, the landscape and -well- the beach.
In Athens we had a concert in the main building of the university.
Each and every detail in this hall reminded us of the proud
classic history of Greece. But we still had to prepare
our voices for the concert.
