Lafayette College Choirs
Concert tour of SPAIN & PORTUGAL • January 2006
Here are some of our 50,000 photos and other goodies.
E-mails | Photos | Videos | Audio | Pre-tour
Posted June 6: photo-montage (original is 18" by 24", and hangs outside our rehearsal room)
- Full size—to scroll around!
- Screen-size (800 pixels wide)
- Larger screen-size (1200 pixels wide)
Souvenirs
- E-mails and attached photos that we sent from Internet cafés along the way
- E-mail 1 from Faro, January 13
- E-mail 2-3 from Madrid, January 18
- E-mail 4-5 from Madrid, January 20
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- Pictures! Pictures! Yes! Pictures! 614 photos in various categories, more or less chronological. By Josh Porter, Chris Jacoby, Jon Esser, Varun Mehta, Allison Shapp, Darren Keppley, Katherine Furlong, Bryan Culbertson, Patrick Rossi, Justin Bruce, Nina Gilbert, assorted friendly strangers (“Here, please take our picture”), and others. From each of these pages, click the photos to see them enlarged:
- Easton and Airports, including our perfect sendoff from St. Peter’s Lutheran Church
- Life on the bus, including our nap-shots and our fabulous driver, José
- Lisbon
- Sintra, where, as far as I can tell, we all obeyed the rules about no photos inside the castles
- Faro, including our a-cappella-driven party with the Ossónoba choirs
- Seville, including our mist-in-the-morning walking tour and the orange-trees-in-the-streets background photo
- Our Flamenco Class near Seville, taught by Carmen
- Córdoba, including our olive oil lecture-and-tasting (and buying)
- Madrid and Alcalá de Henares
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- A few videos: unedited, you-had-to-be-there moments; note that some of these take a while to load, so I’ve set them to open new windows
- Our flamenco class (video from Josh Porter’s camera, but not taken by Josh, who is in the video
- Spontaneous Flamenco party with Coro Ziryab
- Eva (Coro Ziryab) dancing (video by Josh Porter)
- Gaudeamus igitur with Coro da Cámara Aminta, directed by Alejandro Ramírez, at Convento de San José del Carmen (video by Josh Porter)
- Te abrazo (Gershwin, arr. Zegree; Spanish by Camacho) at Alcalá de Henares (video by Josh Porter)
- Bryan climbing the elevator walls (video by Allison Shapp)
- Chorduroys singing in the streets of Faro (video by Justin Bruce)
- Random Rap Moment on the bus with Tom and Jeff (video by Chris Jacoby)
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- Audio: recorded at our Welcome Home Concert, January 25—maybe you were there!
- Salmo 100, by Amy Scurria
- Stars Falling, poem by Jay Parini ’70 set to music by Maxim Vladimiroff, conducted by Tim Zirkel ’08
- Chitarra d'amor, by Ludwig Schmidseder, arranged for the King’s Singers by—
- and posted here with the gracious permission and encouragement of—Daryl Runswick
- Useful Spanish Phrases Rap, by Tom Struck ’06 and Varun Mehta ’06
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Below: items posted before our trip
What was on our outgoing voice mail while we were away?
Pre-tour teaser photos and Spanish word of the day
Itinerary updated January 6 (including Cordoba Youth Hostel)
Promotional materials in English, Spanish, and Portuguese: photos, press release, bios, and audio
LisboaCultural announcement
Information about our concerts
What was on the cover of our program?
What was in the program? (repertoire, texts, translations, personnel, acknowledgements)
Spain and Portugal links
ACFEA, our tour company
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Pre-Tour External Links to itinerary items:
Photos and e-mails and concert-medley-video from 2003 tour (e-mail 1 is especially informative)
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Updated June 16, 2006
Background of this page: Basilica in Lisbon. The photo repeats according to the shape of the page. The actual pillars are all vertical!
