IN PU R SUIT OF MOZ A RT June 3–13, 2014 Professor Toshiyuki Shimada Music Director & Conductor, Yale Symphony Orchestra Lecturing on Mozart—The Man & His Music

VIEW OF Dear Yale Traveler Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart created some of the most beautiful music the world has ever heard, despite his short and often tortured existence. Join Yale June 3-13, 2014, and trace the footsteps of this melodic genius on privileged visits to places significant in his life and career. Begin in Salzburg, the city of his birth, where we explore the Old Town on a walking tour and enter the Mozart Museum, located in his family’s home. On an afternoon in Bavaria, discover Schloss Herrenchiemsee, the largest of King Ludwig’s palaces. Continue to , visit the magnificent Schönbrunn Palace where Mozart first performed for Empress Maria Theresa when he was six years old, and revel in the pleasures of the city where Mozart spent the last ten years of his life. A special treat is a curatorial tour of the Old Masters at the Kunsthistorisches Museum before public hours. Attend the Vienna Festival and tour backstage at the Musikverein, home to the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra. As a special Yale enhancement, a Yale School of Music graduate has invited us to her home for a musical salon and reception. Prague, the city that openheartedly embraced Mozart, is the perfect place to conclude our journey. A highlight is a private recital at the Estates Theater, where the maestro himself conducted the premiere of Don Giovanni. The TOSHIYUKI SHIMADA Yale group will attend a concert of the composer’s arias that is arranged at Villa Betramka, where Wolfgang Professor Toshiyuki Shimada has been Music Director of Amadeus was a frequent guest. An excursion will take the Yale Symphony Orchestra at Yale University since 2005. us to the birthplace of composer Antonin Dvorak. He holds a teaching position at Yale University, as Associate I am pleased to represent Yale as lecturer on this wonderful Professor of Conducting with the Yale School of Music journey. I am passionate about Mozart and music and am and Department of Music. His background is rich with eager to share this experience with you. I have been Music credentials. He also serves as Music Director of the Eastern Director of the Yale Symphony Orchestra since 2005. My teaching position is Associate Professor of Conducting with Connecticut Symphony Orchestra and the Orchestra of the Yale School of Music and Department of Music. Since the Southern Finger Lakes. Since 1998, he has been the 1998, I have served as Principal Conductor of the Vienna Principal Conductor of the Vienna Modern Masters record Modern Masters record label in Austria. I attended the label in Austria. Maestro Shimada has had the good fortune University of Music and Dramatic Arts in Vienna, Austria. to study with many distinguished conductors of the past Outside of the musical world, I am a Fellow of Davenport College and a member of the Elizabethan Club. and present, including , , and Herbert Blomstedt. He was a finalist in the Space on this exceptional itinerary is limited. Please visit www.yaleedtravel.org/mozart14 to register. You may 1979 Herbert von Karajan conducting competition in Berlin, also call Yale Educational Travel at (203) 432-1952 or email and Fellow conductor in the Los Angeles Philharmonic [email protected] with any questions. Institute in 1983. A graduate of California State University

Sincerely yours, in Northridge, where he studied with David Whitwell and Lawrence Christianson, Shimada attended the University of Music and Dramatic Arts in Vienna, Austria. At Yale University, he has been selected as a Fellow of Davenport Toshiyuki Shimada College and a member of the Elizabethan Club. ITINERARY

USA Tuesday, June 3 Depart on an overnight flight to Salzburg, via Vienna.

SALZBURG Wednesday, June 4 Arrive in charming Salzburg, where Mozart was born in 1756. Transfer to the historic Sacher in the heart of the city. On an afternoon walking tour, see the Old Town and the 17th-century Baroque cathedral. We hope to go behind the scenes at Festspielhaus, a concert venue. Gather this evening at the hotel for introductory remarks by Toshiyuki Shimada and a welcome dinner.

SALZBURG Schönbrunn Palace, Vienna. Thursday, June 5 In the morning, Professor Shimada presents SALZBURG / VIENNA VIENNA a lecture. After the lecture, visit the Mozart Friday, June 6 Saturday, June 7 Museum, located in the Mozart family home Admire the beautiful countryside on a drive Before hours, enter the world-renowned where his violins, harpsichord, letters, and to Vienna. After lunch, visit Schönbrunn Kunsthistorisches Museum. Begin at the portraits are on view. Then see the Residenz, Palace, the Rococo summer residence of the Imperial Treasury and see the crypt made the palace of the prince-archbishops, where Habsburgs. It was here in the Mirror Room for Napoleon’s son. A curator will show us the young Wolfgang Amadeus displayed where a six-year-old Mozart first performed the Raphaels, Titians, Vermeers, Bruegels, his musical virtuosity. An afternoon drive for an awed Empress Maria Theresa. See and Rembrandts. Lunch at the popular into neighboring Bavaria takes us to Schloss famous Art Nouveau architecture along the ’s Café is followed by an afternoon Herrenchiemsee, the largest of King Ludwig Ringstrasse before checking in at the Hotel at leisure. You may wish to return to II’s impressive palaces. The evening is at Bristol. Attend an evening performance of Kunsthistorisches Museum and its vast leisure in Salzburg. the Vienna Festival. collections originating from the Habsburg

Mozart’s birthplace museum, Salzburg (left), and Madonna of the Meadow (detail) by Raphael, Kunsthistoriches Museum, Vienna (right). PRAGUE Thursday, June 12 The morning is dedicated to Prague Castle, once the residence of Bohemian royalty. At the privately owned Lobkowicz Palace, view the Princely Collection of Old Masters and decorative arts amassed over six hundred years by the family. At the Gothic St. Vitus Cathedral, see the stained-glass windows, one done by the Czech Art Nouveau artist Alphonse Mucha. Lunch and the afternoon are free for individual pursuits. Our farewell dinner is at Céleste, a restaurant atop Frank Gehry’s Dancing House.

PRAGUE / USA Friday, June 13 Transfer to the airport for flights home.

The Art Nouveau Majolica House, Vienna.

PROGRAM RATE $7,995 dynasty. Alternatively, see paintings by PRAGUE per person double occupancy Schiele, Munch, and Klimt at the Upper Tuesday, June 10 Belvedere, the summer palace of Eugene Cross the Charles Bridge for a walking tour SINGLE SUPPLEMENT $1,580 of Savoy. In the early evening, Antoinette of the Old Town and Jewish Quarter, with RATE INCLUDES Van Zabner Zinn-Zinnenburg ’74 M.M., ’75 stops at the museum of Jewish heritage M.M.A., a leading pianist, invites us to her and the Jewish cemetery dating from the n Nine nights accommodations: two at lovely home for a musical salon. 15th century. In Old Town Square, see the Hotel Sacher, Salzburg; three at the the Astronomical Clock strike the hour. Hotel Bristol, Vienna; and four at the VIENNA Tour the Municipal House, a concert house Mandarin Oriental Prague Sunday, June 8 designed in the Art Nouveau style, and have n Following a presentation by Professor lunch in one of its restaurants. Continue Buffet breakfast daily, seven lunches, Shimada, visit the Mozarthaus, where the to the Estates Theater, where Mozart and two dinners. Wine with lunches composer rented rooms from 1784 to 1787. conducted the world premiere of his opera and dinners His only residence in Vienna that survives, Don Giovanni in 1787 to an enraptured n Two evening performances it has an exhibit on his life and work. Then audience. A tour of the theater and a n First-Class train ticket from Vienna see the impressive Collection of Historic short recital of Mozart music are specially to Prague Musical Instruments. After lunch, take a arranged. This evening, attend an opera or backstage tour of the Musikverein, home of philharmonic performance. n Enrichment program of lectures and the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra. The special events evening is at leisure, and you may wish to PRAGUE n Escorted sightseeing by motorcoach attend another musical performance. Wednesday, June 11 and entrance fees for visits Today begins with a presentation by VIENNA / PRAGUE Professor Shimada. Then visit Nelahozeves, n Airport / hotel / train station group Monday, June 9 the ancestral home of the Lobkowicz family transfers and porterage Board a train to Prague and enjoy a box and one of the finest Renaissance castles in n Taxes and service charges lunch during the relaxing journey. Upon Bohemia. View the period rooms and the n Gratuities to guides, drivers, and arrival, check in at the Mandarin Oriental family collection. Then stop at the nearby hotel staff Hotel, a former monastery and our home birthplace of Antonin Dvorák. Following for the next four nights. Early this evening lunch, return to Prague to see the Strahov NOT INCLUDED IN RATE Airfare; passport at Villa Betramka, where Mozart was a Library and neighboring church, where fees; alcoholic beverages other than wine at lunches and dinners; personal items and expenses; airport frequent guest of the Dušek family, sip a Mozart often improvised on the organ. We transfers for those not on suggested flights; baggage glass of wine and listen to a private concert will also tour the Czech Museum of Music, in excess of one suitcase; trip insurance; any other of Mozart arias. Dinner is at leisure. You displaying instruments, manuscripts, and items not specifically mentioned as included. may wish to dine at one of the city’s many items belonging to Smetana and Dvorák. fine restaurants. The remainder of the day is at leisure. YALE EDUCATIONAL TRAVEL 1 RESERVATION APPLICATION

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WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART In Pursuit of Mozart With Professor Toshiyuki Shimada June 3–13, 2014

Program Highlights

Enhance your appreciation of Mozart with lectures by Toshiyuki Shimada, Music Director of the Yale Symphony Orchestra.

Visit the home of Antoinette Van Zabner Zinn-Zinnenburg ’74 M.M., ’75 M.M.A., a leading pianist.

Take a backstage tour of Musikverein, home of the world- renowned Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra.

Enjoy a private Mozart recital at the Estates Theater in Prague, a city beloved by the composer.

Attend a Vienna Festival perfor- mance, and at the Kunsthistorisches Museum, see the Old Masters with a curator. THE HISTORIC CHARLES BRIDGE, PRAGUE