. Cormack wasn't there for these 2 concerts but Anne-Marie O'Farrell was also fantastic. She played a wonderful solo.
But I wasn’t only to the concerts. In Chemnitz I had time to walk through the city the whole day (about 12 km). I had never been before in Chemnitz. In the World War II Chemnitz was heavily destroyed. In GDR-times Chemnitz’ name was Karl-Marx-Stadt and it wasn’t a city to visit just for holidays so I was very keen to see this city. In the past there was a lot of industrie in the city but after the reunification most of the factories were closed. Before the wall came down the city had more than 300000 inhabitants but in the last 20 years more than 20 % have left Chemnitz. There are many many deserted houses. But I found some nice areas. At first I was at the synagogue. Then I walked to the city centre were I saw the petrified forest (in a shopping centre) which was found in Chemnitz. Then I strolled over the nice Christmas market, was looking for the big statue of Karl Marx’ head and walked over the Theater Place. I went to the Castle Church in which a whip column stands which was made in 1515 of one huge oak-trunk. From there you could see St. Markus Church on the other side of Chemnitz where the concert took place.
The next day I met a friend in Dresden who joined with me to the concert. I hadn’t seen her for 2 years. Two people I met at Leo’s this June came to the concert in Lukas Church as well. We were the last fans in the church after the concert and so we had a lot of fun with Moya and Sinead. The next day before I had to go to the airport my friend took me for a walk to Moritzburg.
Here you can see pictures not only from the concerts:
http://picasaweb.google.de/Susann177/Mo ... 203122009#
