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| international
concert tour |
the AYC 2008 International
Concert Tour
BARCELONA, LISBON, LONDON, MADRID & ROME
The Australian Youth Choir explored new
performing territory in 2008 with a concert tour that included
Barcelona, Madrid and Lisbon for the first time. The tour provided
our choristers with some memorable performance opportunities
and magnificent sight seeing adventures.
Amongst the many highlights were:
- A walking tour of Imperial Rome
including the Roman Forum and the house of the Vestal Virgins
- A
day at the Vatican, taking part in the Papal Audience in St
Peter’s Square
- Visiting the Vatican Museums and
the Sistine Chapel
- Visit to the Colosseum and the Catacombs
- Concert
at the Australian Embassy, Rome
- Concert at a Roman School.
- Travel to
Tivoli to visit Villa Adriana built by the Emperor Hadrian
- Barcelona
- Performance in Montserrat,1220m
above sea level
- Attend
Montserrat Boy’s choir
performance
- Performance in Zaragoza
- Travel
to Madrid – tour
of the city, witness the architecture of Madrid - Medieval,
Renaissance, Baroque, Neoclassic, Romantic and Modern periods
are all represented . Madrid is known as the city of culture
and lively atmosphere and is named ‘the
city that never sleeps’
- The Prado Museum, Casa del Campo-
the cable car over Madrid, the Royal Palace and Almudena Cathedral
- Schools
performances in Madrid
- Concert and Sight seeing in Toledo
- Concert
and sight seeing in Trujillo
- Take part
in the May festival in Cáceres
- Afternoon performance in Evora
- Sight
seeing in Lisbon - Liberty Avenue, Rossio and Black Horse Squares
and St George's Castle. The striking monastery of Jeronimos
and the Maritime Museum.
- Afternoon concert at the Australian
Embassy
- Sight seeing in London - viewing the
major highlights of both the West End and the City. Big Ben,
the Houses of Parliament, Westminster Abbey, Covent Garden,
Trafalgar Square, Piccadilly Circus and the Tower of London
- A
visit to the Science Museum, one of the most popular museums
in the UK with its interactive approach to science and a cruise
on the Thames to Greenwich, the home of Greenwich Mean Time
and the Meridian Line
- Concerts at several London schools
- Concert
at St Paul’s Cathedral
For further information please contact
your nearest office
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