Austrian Waltz!Vienna and Salzburg with the Crested Butte Music Festival

Join CBMF Co-Artistic Directors Erik Peterson and Emily Ondracek-Peterson for an extraordinary musical experience next spring, when they host a journey to the musical capitals of Vienna

and Salzburg. Lucky travelers will hear the great Russian maestro Valery Gergiev

conduct the Munich Philharmonic in the Musikverein, the legendary Placido

Domingo sing the title role of Verdi’s Simon Boccanegra at the Vienna State

Opera, and performances by Vienna’s own renowned early-music ensemble,

Concentus Musicus, as well as the Vienna Symphony. In Salzburg, we will enjoy

a private concert at the prestigious Mozarteum.

Vienna has long been seized by a passion for music. A succession of Habsburg

rulers provided a cultural milieu where the nurturing of musicians and of new

music established important musical traditions that endure to this day. On our

journey we will walk in the footsteps of Mozart, Schubert, and Beethoven, and

visit palaces, theatres, and concert halls where music has played a significant

role for centuries. We will also sample the fine food and wine for which Austria is

noted, and feast our eyes on outstanding landscapes and city views.

No visit to Vienna would be complete without a day along the Danube, and our

excursion will take us up the river to the great Abbey of Melk, where Mozart once

played the organ. And on our way from Salzburg, we’ll travel through the lovely

mountains and lakes of the Salzkammergut. Do you hear the sound of music?

Expert private guides lead us through many major sites in both cities, deluxe

hotels, fine dining, delightful cafés, the commentary of Emily and Erik, and plenty

of free time all make this a cultural experience not to

be missed!

Tour Cost: $5,335 per person, ground only, based on double occupancy.

The Austria tour is an exclusive presentation by the Crested Butte Music Festival and is organized by The Grand Tour Travel Company, Peterborough, New Hampshire.

March 23-April 1, 2019 Tour begins in Salzburg on March 24

Musikverein, Vienna

Placido Domingo as Simon Boccanegra

Tour Highlights

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• FourperformancesinVienna,including Simon BoccanegraattheViennaStateOpera, the Munich Philharmonic and Concentus MusicusattheMusikverein,andVienna SymphonyattheKonzerthaus,dependingon ticket availability

• PrivateconcertinSalzburgattheMozarteum

• Privateguidedtoursofmajorsitesinboth cities including a Jugendstil (Art Nouveau) Day, andprivatebefore-hourstourofthe KunsthistorischesMuseuminVienna,with expert guides

• PrivatetoursofthehomesofBeethoven, MozartandSchubert

• Privateviewingofimportantmusical manuscriptsoftheMozartFamilyinSalzburg

• ExcursionsinthecountrysidetotheWachau ValleynearVienna,withwinetasting,andthe SalzkammergutoutsideofSalzburg

• Deluxeaccommodationsin5-starhotelsin both cities

• Finediningattoprestaurants

• Thecommentaryof CBMF’sErikPeterson andEmilyOndracek- Peterson

Valery Gergiev

Wednesday, March 27THE SOUND OF MUSICWe bid auf Wiedersehen to Salzburg and ride our private motorcoach to the great music capital of Vienna. On the way our journey carries us through the lovely, peaceful region of lakes and mountains called the Salzkammergut. A pleasant ferry ride from the charming village of St. Gilgen, birthplace of Mozart’s mother, crosses the Wolfgangsee to St. Wolfgang. In the town’s main church of the same name, we’ll view the unique late-Gothic winged altar by Michael Pacher, before lunch at the Brandauer Villa in the town of Strobl right on the lake. Upon arrival in Vienna, we check in to our base for the next five nights, the five-star Hotel Bristol, ideally located across from the Vienna State Opera. Tonight the Concentus Musicus Wien, the great early-music orchestra founded by Nikolaus Harnoncourt, performs music by Vivaldi and Pisendel in the lovely Brahms-Saal of the Musikverein.

Thursday, March 28HISTORIC VIENNAOur privately guided walking tour of Vienna’s Old Town includes many treats: majestic St. Stephen’s Cathedral where Mozart’s funeral took place and Bruckner played the organ; a small theatre where Mozart produced operas and entertainments; the Eroicasaal, where Beethoven premiered the “Eroica” Symphony in Vienna; and more. Lunch is in the center. After lunch our private coach takes us out to the Central Cemetery to stand before the tombs of Beethoven, Schubert, Brahms and other composers, before landing at the 18th-century palace and gardens of Schönbrunn, the Hapsburg summer residence. This evening, the Vienna Symphony under the baton of Juraj Valčuha performs music by Prokofiev and Rachmaninoff at the beautiful Wiener Konzerthaus.

Friday, March 29JUGENDSTIL VIENNA Fin de siècle Vienna was under the grip of a widely diverse and experimental explosion in the arts, nowhere more evident today in its Jugendstil landmarks of Vienna’s Art Nouveau movement. A trip around Vienna’s Ringstrasse to view buildings designed by Adolf Loos, Otto Wagner, and other renowned architects; the Secession, to see Gustav Klimt’s stunning Beethoven Frieze, and the Leopold Museum, one man’s fine collection of painting, sculpture and decorative arts of the period, all will be led by an expert art historian. Lunch is appropriately at Zum Schwarzen Kameel (The Black Camel) located in a classic Art Nouveau building. Rest of the afternoon free. At the famed Vienna State Opera tonight Verdi’s stirring drama of conflicted family rivalries in Venice, Simon Boccanegra, is led by the great Placido Domingo in the title role, Philippe Auguin conducting.

Saturday, March 23 Flights from the US, with arrival the following day.

Sunday, March 24 WILKOMMEN!Arrival in Munich or Salzburg and transfer to the pretty town of Salzburg, birthplace of Mozart and still much the same as in his time. We settle in to our 5-star hotel along the Salzach River in the quiet old town, the Hotel Altstadt, and gather for a welcome reception. Then we cross the river for our Gala Welcome Dinner in the exclusive Wintergarten at the Hotel Sacher.

Monday, March 25MOZART’S CITYBreakfast daily at both hotels. Our expert guide, Barbara, takes us on a morning walking tour of Salzburg, across the Old Town, to the Cathedral, the Archbishop’s Palace and St. Peter’s church. We tour the house where Mozart was born, and end up for lunch at the historic St. Peter’s Stiftskeller, where many notables for the music world have dined. The rest of your afternoon is free. Tonight enjoy our own private concert of music by Mozart in the Viennese Hall of the renowned Mozarteum, the historic university in Salzburg and a center of musical life in the city.

Tuesday, March 26MOZART AND FAMILY Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and family moved to larger quarters across the river in 1773, where the composer lived before leaving for good to Vienna eight years later. The house was destroyed during the war but has been carefully reconstructed and opened again twenty years ago. As part of our tour we will view private manuscripts of the family rarely accorded to tourists. Lunch on your own and afternoon free. Dinner tonight is at M32, a fine modern restaurant atop the Mönchberg with panoramic views over the city.

ItineraryDaily

Mozart in the Burggarten, Vienna

SalzburgSchönbrunn

left: Hotel Bristol right: Gustav Klimt’s Beethoven Frieze

Tour Hosts: Emily Ondracek- Peterson is a leader in violin performance, arts advocacy, education and entrepreneurship. Making her solo début with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra at the age of 16, she has since performed as soloist with the New York Philharmonic and in hundreds of concerts at renowned venues as first violinist of the Voxare String Quartet. Emily has written and lectured extensively about entrepreneurship and career development for conservatory-trained musicians, and was a New York Philharmonic Teaching Artist. She received performance degrees from The Juilliard School, and her doctorate in education from Teachers College, Columbia University. Her recordings can be found on Naxos, Albany, and Toccata. www.emilyop.com

Erik Christian Peterson is the founding member and current violist of the acclaimed Voxare String Quartet. With Voxare, he has performed at every major concert venue in New York, including as soloist at Avery Fisher Hall with the New York Philharmonic and been awarded Chamber Music America’s ASCAP Award for Adventurous Programming. As an orchestral musician, he has performed with the Cleveland Orchestra and Milwaukee and New World Symphonies. As artist-in-residence, Erik has held positions at Dartmouth College, the University of Leeds (UK), the University of Virginia, and the International Computer Music Conference. As musicologist and theorist, he has lectured at Princeton University, the British Library, and New York University. As an accomplished photographer, his works have appeared in The New York Times and other publications. Erik received his Bachelor’s degree from the Juilliard School and his Master’s and Doctoral degrees from the Cleveland Institute of Music.

Saturday, March 30THE BLUE, BLUE DANUBEToday, we venture outside Vienna into the lovely countryside along the Danube called the Wachau. We’ll tour the great Benedictine Monastery of Melk, where Mozart played the organ in 1767. Lunch in nearby Emmersdorf is accompanied by a tasting of Wachau wines. Upon our return to the city, we pause in the suburb of Heiligenstadt to visit the house of Beethoven where in the deepest crisis of his life he penned the so-called “Heiligenstadt Testament,” confessing his growing deafness. Returning into the city center, we stop to visit the humble birthplace of Franz Schubert. Evening free.

Sunday, March 31OLD MASTERS AND BRUCKNEROn our last full day in Vienna, we offer an early-entry private tour, exclusive to the group, of the Kunsthistorisches (Fine Arts) Museum with its famous paintings by Breughel, Caravaggio, Arcimboldo, and many others. The afternoon is free, and this might be a day to view a training session by the famed Lipizzaner horses. More music follows this evening at the Musikverein, arguably the greatest concert hall in the world with its magnificent acoustics. Valery Gergiev brings his Munich Philharmonic to Vienna for a program featuring a new work by the important German composer Wolfgang Rihm and Anton Bruckner’s great 4th Symphony, known as the ”Romantic.” Our farewell dinner precedes the performance at the Hotel Bristol’s marvelous gourmet restaurant.

Monday, April 1 No fooling, the tour ends after breakfast, and transfers for flights back to the US.

Itinerary subject to change. Meals in bold are included in the price of the tour.

Vienna State Opera Hall

Tour Registration

Tour Cost: $5,335 per person, ground only, double occupancy. Single supplement: $880. Includes $500 tax-deductible contribution to CBMF

Deposit: $1,000 per person, first come, first served.

Balance deadline: Friday, January 18, 2019. After that date, call for availability.

Contact The Grand Tour to reserve your place on the tour with a credit card for the deposit amount, or mail a check made payable to The Grand Tour, to: Austrian Waltz, The Grand Tour, PO Box 274, Peterborough, NH 03458. Registration materials can be downloaded from www.crestedbuttemusicfestival.org

Questions? Contact The Grand Tour at 800-727-2995 / info@thegrandtour.com or Cynthia Peatross of CBMF at (520) 878-6157, or cynthia@mycbmf.com.