Dave and I took
a very interesting trip last May to Austria. My 6th grade class
from Oxford Elementary School in Berkeley has been holding reunions
every five years for the last 25 years. This year we decided to
have our reunion in Vienna, where one of our distinguished classmates,
Walter Moore, has been a music professor at the Vienna Academy
of Music for all of his adult career (superb accompanist specializing
in coaching Schubert Lieder). Thirteen of us spent 10 days in
Vienna and environs and had a great time.
Dave and friend in front
of
a shop in Salzburg
Sue and Walter in front
of
University Church
Sue and Dave in front of a fountain
at Schoenbrun Palace in Vienna
Rays of sun on the altar at University-Jesuit Church in Vienna
where we attended Mass featuring a complete Mozart Mass (in Latin)
with full chorus, soloists and orchestra
Fisherman's Bastion in Budapest with
statue of St. Stephen
Decorated skulls in the Beinhaus (House
of Bones) in Hallstatt, Austria. Hallstatt is famous for having
the oldest salt mine in that part of the world. Also its Catholic
Church, possessing a very small burial yard, has a tradition of
exhuming bodies after 10 or 12 years (to make room for others)
and cleaning and labeling the skulls for display.
