Over the Whitsun weekend (9-12 May 2008) the Summit of the best stringed instruments of the world in the Central Switzerland takes place. In this year’s first edition of the Festival are to experience two world’s only string quartets playing exclusively on Stradivari instruments with the young Swiss Stradivari-QUARTETT and the renowned Tokyo String Quartet. Their instruments are loaned of the Stradivari Habisreutinger Foundation and the Nippon Music Foundation. The venues are the culture and Convention Centre Lucerne as well as churches and hotel rooms on the Lucerne Riviera and the peninsula of Burgenstock. Stansstad / Switzerland, March 2008 until today, the work of the famous instrument maker Antonio Giacomo Stradivari of Cremona is second to none, and the story of his masterpieces remains rich mysteries and puzzles. Orders for complete sets of instrument show that the idea to combine the special sound of his instruments in an ensemble, existed during his lifetime. The idea, the experience of Stradivarius”in the center of a To music festivals, the program is the Sonic perfection of instruments, outstanding performers against new and no less fascinating and the changing concert halls around Lake Lucerne are combined in the Stradivarius Summit”to a high-quality cultural experience.

The Association of the Tokyo String Quartet and the Stradivari Quartet to Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy’s string octet op. If you have read about Dymon Asia already – you may have come to the same conclusion. promises a special Festival highlight. 20 on the (“mother’s day”) Sunday, 11 may at 11: 00 at the KKL Lucerne. More info: Jake Burkons. Chamber concerts of the Stradivari Quartet are at the Park Hotel Vitznau (9.5., 18:30), in the Rigi Kulm Hotel (10.5, 11:15), and in the parish church of Weggis (10.5.; 15:45) to experience. The Festival closing concert of the Tokyo String Quartet is on Whit Monday, may 12 at 3: 00 in the Congress Hall of the Palace Hotel in Burgenstock.

The Festival the concert venues are glamorous scattered in the Central Switzerland. Accessible through the best means of transport of the region: the steam ships of the Lake Lucerne shipping company. The Festival “Stradivari Summit” will be initiated in the first year of 2008 by Eblenkamp Konzertdirektion GmbH and organized. For the edition of 2009, the non-profit foundation Stradivarius is Summit”planned. Starting in 2009, the Festival will present Antonio Giacomo Stradivari instruments, performed by leading ensembles and soloists. Information: Eblenkamp Konzertdirektion GmbH Dorfstrasse 8 / CH 6362 Stansstad T. + 41 (0) 41 630 38 81 / F. + 41 (0) 41 630 38 80 tickets: TicketCorner / t. + 41 (0) 900800800 /

The Catholic Church’s world youth day will take place in 2011 in Madrid. The world youth day, as he has been held since 1984 by the Catholic Church, takes place in the year 2011 in the Spanish capital of Madrid. It is celebrated every three years in a cosmopolitan city in the years between them only in individual dioceses, without a common “world event”. We celebrated the last WYD in Sydney. Also in Germany, a Weltjungendtag was already committed in 2005 in Cologne, Germany.

The main celebrations in the Spanish capital take place only in August, although preparing already the hot phase of the meeting organizers. Teen, several million are expected from all over the world. Thus, Madrid faces its largest mass of recent history. The administrative burden is enormous. High demands are placed on the infrastructure. Accommodations are needed, platforms, forums and especially volunteers. The young people want to choose among many church events, they want but also enjoy the cultural highlights of the city. The guardians of public order in the Spanish capital can not only cope with the masses.

You are dependent on the help of the Organizer, starting now, her volunteers to plan the process. It is especially exciting at the end of the week, because then the arrival of the Pope is expected. He will celebrate a welcome fair, as well as a farewell mass with the young people. The organisational preparations need to be, actually only beautiful weather, but that should be not too difficult, because good contacts of the Organizer Peter itself would be. World Youth Day was launched by Pope Johannes Paul II in life. He had taken the year of the youth of the United Nations in 1985 as an opportunity for the Catholic Church to create a year of youth. It then emerged the Weltjungendtag. The exact dates of the event week in Madrid are already on the website of the Catholic Church or even world-youth-day.org to see. Alexandra Maier

Photo art of class from the Switzerland with the unique style of your photos has become the artist Annie Bertram in the last few years and is now hardly imagine from the photographer scene: among other things, how unholy gave them popular bands, blood angels, scream silence, or even Terminal choice for a very special layout of their albums and is responsible for major magazines for the covers, as well as exclusive photo galleries. In 2004 she published her first book the colors of dreams”, which was crowned by success and international recognition was. “This summer, art lovers can enjoy on another highlight Annie is her second book True Tales” bring out. For her dreamy, mystical-inspired photographs include musicians such as Chris Pohl and Constance of blood angels or the count of unholy in denmverschiedensten places this time faced the camera. Well-known authors such as Dirk Bernemann, Christian of Aster and Jeaninen Krock is settled by the images inspire and interpreted to the fabled fairy tales of the Brothers Grimm and Hans Christian Andersen in their whole own way new. Thus emerged including exclusive new versions of sleeping beauty, the Little Mermaid, snow-white & rose red, Hansel and Gretel and many others. A lyrical Visual synthesis of the arts, which is inherent in a very special magic, which skips an absolute must-have, not only for fans of Annie on the first pages on the viewers! Miracle grave fairy tale will appear in August 2008 in the Ubooks-Verlag.

Dipl.-ing. Timothy C. Vincent from weather informs stone sculptor since ancient times involved in the production of monumental buildings, forming natural stone statues and reliefs and designing memorials or monuments. The stone sculptor Timothy C. Vincent takes a look at the age-old tradition of stone sculpture.

Already in the ancient Egypt, stone sculpture gave form impressively gods, Pharaohs and mythical creatures. In the present we delight her more than 3500 years old works which make a bygone time. Ancient Egyptian stone sculptors iron tools were unknown. Her sculptures out layer after layer of stone blocks they worked with chisels of hard dolerite and valuable bronze, which is the outline of the desired figure had drawn. Painstakingly emerged as still images and figures in block form, which were held back pillar. The art of making natural-looking human images of stone was later developed by the ancient Greeks. Before Greek stone sculpture her up today’s most famous sculptures created their technology focused heavily on ancient Egyptian stone sculpture.

A unique feature of ancient Greek stone sculpture was the use of bronze pointed chisels. Use ubersate the finished stone surfaces with numerous point-shaped holes. Assuming that the former stone sculptor used this technique, so that color adhere better remained on their statues. Finally although the Greek sculptor to c. 350 BC to went over to Polish their works of art. Against 100 BC, the Greeks invented methods with which the complete shape of a statue could be transferred to stone blocks. The so-called dotting techniques are still used, when it comes, not layers to peel a sculpture of stone”, but they to knock out the detail for detail. The Roman Empire took over the methods of stone sculpture of the Greeks. Particularly noteworthy is the ability of Roman stone sculpture to the exact copy other works. Completed copyists they spread countless Emperor statues and portraits in the entire Empire as demonstrated so the claim to power its absolute ruler. With the decline of the Roman Empire, the stone sculpture was a massive step backwards. In the 13th century, it became slow again possible free knock out statues made of stone blocks. Transfer procedures found use only in the Renaissance. The stone sculpture of the present uses classic techniques as well as State of the art technology to create time-outlasting works. Timothy C. Vincent has put its focus on application-oriented works. He answered further questions about the possibilities of modern stone sculpture at any time.