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Travel Through Music - Italy!

6/27/2015

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It's a rainy, sleepy day here in Washington, DC, so I'm naturally reminiscing about a trip to Italy that my mother and I took four years ago.  We did a wonderful tour through Rick Steves' company, and visited Florence, the Cinque Terre, Lucca, Volterra, and Rome. Someone else who took a fabulous trip of Italy was the composer Felix Mendelssohn. Mendelssohn was one of the rare composers who came from a wealthy family, so they sent him on the traditional "Grand Tour" of Europe when he was a young man. He came back inspired, and his Fourth Symphony is named "The Italian."

Please enjoy this video by the Frankfurt Radio Symphony, performing the "Italian" Symphony in its entirety, as well as a few photos from my trip.
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Santa Maria della Fiore, or the famous Duomo in Florence. Taken from the balcony of the Uffizi art museum.
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Me and my mother on a hike between Monterosso al Mare and Vernazza (seen behind us) in the Cinque Terre.
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Saint Peter's Square and Rome, as seen from the top of the Vatican.
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