Diana Rowan - Harpist: Blog

My lecture at Istanbul University November 2011, at the Myths Revisited conference:

http://www.tv7.bg/news/175202.html From my concert Dec 28 at the icon museum at the Alexander Nevsky Church, Sofia, Bulgaria

http://zlatinageorgieva.blogspot.com/2011/10/blog-post_29.html

What an eye-opener Poland was for me.  Despite being a huge Chopin fan from my days as a classical pianist, I had only the vaguest impressions of the country.  Warsaw is grand and an incredible story of renewal.  Essentially destroyed in 1945:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tpuNqupzsZU it has entirely rebuilt its old town in a most gorgeous fashion.  The Warsaw hall was one of the prettiest, with some of the best acoustics I've ever encountered.
The drive to Lublin, about 3 hours away, was through the "Golden Autumn" as they call the fall colors, which actually doesn't do the vast palette justice.  Despite needing to rest before the concert, I couldn't help staring our the window the whole way.
Polish audiences are so responsive:
Dear Ms. Rowan, I'd like to thank you for yesterday's concert at Catholic University, Lublin. I heard about the concert about an hour before it started, and I decided to stay and listen for half an hour, before my classes.  However, [...]

Details on another epic (for me) journey...