As most of you probably know, Anton Bruckner is my absolute favorite musician of all time. Although he was Austrian and studied and taught in Vienna, today, he is quite widely known and listened too in Germany as well. When I saw that my program had arranged for us to attend the concert Brucker’s 8th Symphony, I was beside myself with joy! The concert was at the Philharmonie Concert Hall (although the orchestra was not the Berlin Philharmonik, but instead the German Symphony Orchestra Berlin, which is nevertheless quite good), which is definiteyl one of the more unusual buildings in Berlin. It was built in the 70s and is a very angular, non-symmetric building. In fact, there are no lines of symmetry anywhere in the building. However, the concert hall itself for all of its strange
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