No word from Kevin….we can log in as him on facebook and see other of his blue lake friends ‘posting’ but not him. Oh well….it’s not like there is much detail from his friends (one sample…”Europe is a lot nicer than Ohio :) )
Found this online. The translation is google’s translation of the newspaper article and isn’t the greatest….
“Appearance to Rolandfest on Sunday
Blue Lake Ensemble performs in Calbe
By Manuela Langner
The Blue Lake Ensemble from Michigan meets on Friday evening in a Calbe. Her musical skills are the young people who are housed with host families, then to Rolandfest late on Sunday afternoon to the test.
Calbe. Already on Thursday (local time on the east coast), the 50 young people of the Blue Lake Fine Arts Camp increase in their plane to Europe. After a stopover in Paris, she will fly to Berlin tomorrow and in the evening, finally expected in Calbe.
The city is looking forward to the visitors from the state of Michigan (USA), where for decades in Michigan's Manistee National Forest, the Summer school for gifted students in the subjects of music, theater, art and dance are. For her part, the international program that sends the selected young people for three-week European tour. In return, young people from Europe visit the Blue Lake Fine Arts Summer Camp in Michigan.
The tour is part of the young musicians an award. They are selected in the Summer Camp and fly a year later, after intensive rehearsals across the pond. For the city Calbe and the Friedrich Schiller-Gymnasium, it is a great pleasure to welcome the musicians - this time a string orchestra - after 2008 for the second time to be allowed to.
"We have made an attractive program on its feet, but the time of Young people is also not packed full, "said head teacher Erhard Kiel. The boys and girls should stay time they can spend with their host families.
Concert is the climax
To stay in Calbe 2008 there had been a very good response. On Saturday, the young musicians in St. Stephen's Church will rehearse in Calbe. The American Strings and the German singers who attend the concert together on Sunday will meet for the first time. Your appearance is one of the highlights of the festival Roland. The orchestra is led by conductor Dorothy McDonald. Church choirs from the region Schönebeck led by cantor sing Beate be better. The per program is highly demanding: the Mass in G Major by Franz Schubert.
On Monday, the young people take a cruise to Bernburg. Castle and Museum will be visited. The reverence of the American guests in old buildings is still Calbe from 2008 in your memory. The fact that many in the church stone is a thousand years old, had impressed the young people then the long term. This is undoubtedly connected with the rather short history of their own home country.
A "come together" (coming together) of guests, students, parents and teachers will be available on Monday evening, before the young people continue on Tuesday for their next stop on their tour. There are a total six venues across Europe.
Contact with the young people of the Blue Lake Camps fits nicely into the school concept of the Schiller-Gymnasium. Through the exchange program with a high school in the state of Washington and the Sprachbildungsreisen the students are excited about the teaching of English beyond their learned vocabulary in everyday life and actually applied to overcome the fear of expressing themselves in a foreign language.
Even if students and teachers are managed according to the just completed school year, some, no effort be spared to enable the guests a varied and enjoyable stay in Calbe.”
