With Brandenburgische Sommerkonzerte.
Not their finest hour in terms of organisation. When you take a lot of people on tour, it is always a good idea to check in advance that you can actually get to where you want to go, and not least within the time available.
But never mind, it was an interesting trip and a lovely day.
Setting off early in what was forecast to be 36C day, I took a couple of photos on the way to Fehrbelliner Platz. First of all, happy to see what happens to a stupid lawn, all by itself, when you stop the insane, unsustainable, anti-environment cycle of watering, fertilizing and mowing. Followed by a couple of photos in the morning light at Landwehrkanal.
The first church/organ presented (Buchholz organ) was in Słońsk.
For reasons best forgotten, we had a lot of time to spend in the church garden, where I saw the biggest, and blackest, bee I have ever seen (Carpenter Bee?). Also a lonely-looking stork.
Followed by lunch in Kostrzyn.
Next up was the Sauer organ in Trzcińsko-Zdrój.
Unfortunately not easy to get to without a car. Also a very well-preserved city wall.
Back across the border to Schwedt and the Schuke organ.
And finally to Angermünde and the Wagner Organ in St Marienkirche.
There, we were treated to a conccert by Wunderkind, Julian Emanuel Becker. Perhaps an exceptional, young, once-per-century talent such as him is what it takes to make organs and organ music famous again.
