30 Years of Great Music To all Amigos/as From Helga Hampton Dear Amigos, April 2, 2021 HAPPY EASTER!! To me, Easter Week has always been particularly great for listening to the best music in the world in concert halls, churches and, fortunately, also on various radio stations. What a wonderful tradition that is now, during […]
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Thursday, January 21st, 2021Amigos de Música at Os Agostos 30 Years of Great Music Dear Amigos, January 20, 2021 After rereading my last Newsletter with the “Adieu to 2020”, I admire the author for her optimism and cheer with which she invites you/us all to look towards the coming “better” year. In relation to the pandemic situation, she […]
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Monday, January 4th, 2021To all Amigos/as From Helga Hampton Dear Amigos, December 31, 2020 Please join me in an ADIEU to 2020 – the year that I summarily would like to describe as The Big Test. An extraordinaryscourge raised its ugly head to all of us, with challenges for Solidarity, but found us wanting, so it lingers and […]
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Wednesday, November 18th, 2020To all Amigos/as From Helga Hampton NEWSLETTER Dear Amigos, November 18, 2020 This will be yet another message of thanks from me to you ! For our November concerts we initiated a new strategy, suitable for the cooler season, and moved our activities back into our habitual […]
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Saturday, October 17th, 2020October 16, 2020T From Helga Hampton Dear Amigos, Kind autumnal greetings and some surprises, too ! How beautiful is this damaged world !? damaged because of complacency and carelessness How damaged is this beautiful world ??? beautiful because we, each and every individual one of us, feel […]
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Thursday, October 1st, 202030 Years of Great Music To all Amigos/as From Helga Hampton Dear Amigos, September 27, 2020 We did it !!!!We restarted live music at Os Agostos And we did it in style and with great success And I thank you all for your solidarity The two recital evenings with Alexander Schimpf on September 15th […]
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Thursday, September 10th, 202030 Years of Great Music To all Amigos/as From Helga Hampton September 1, 2020 Dear Amigos, Welcome to the 2020/21 Concert Season ! Let me be a bit business-like in structuring this first Newsletter of the new season and introduce it with the short notice that it […]
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Monday, July 27th, 2020We are moving back into our “old” auditorium where the piano is in constant residence. As a consequence of having to follow ever stricter social distancing rules, we will be limited to seating no more than max. 45 people there. Our hosts, in their never-ending generosity, are offering us the additional space in the upper […]
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Monday, June 15th, 202029 Years of Great Music From Helga Hampton Dear Amigos, May 17, 2020 Newsletter time !!!! Yet, what news ???? It is privilege and motivation for me to communicate with you via these Newsletters regularly because there is good news to report and new plans to discuss […]
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Monday, June 15th, 202029 Years of Great Music From Helga Hampton Dear Amigos, June 14, 2020 Still in compliance with government guidelines, albeit with more and more relaxed restrictions, the last two of our planned concerts also had to be cancelled. Our pianist Konstantin Lapshin was waiting and hoping […]
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