To 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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Newsletter, December 31, 2020
Monday, January 4th, 2021Newsletter; November 18th
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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Wednesday, April 1st, 2020From Helga Hampton Dear Amigos, April 1, 2020 MORE CANCELLATION OF CONCERTS “This is a sad but dutiful Newsletter on Friday the 13th of March 2020.” That was the start of my March Newsletter in which I had to inform you about the cancellation of the […]
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Sunday, March 15th, 202029 Years of Great Music From Helga Hampton NEWSLETTER March 13, 2020 Dear Amigos, CANCELLATION OF CONCERTS This is a sad but dutiful Newsletter on Friday the 13th of March 2020. Present circumstances in our lives made it impossible to stick to our plans. We saw no other way than to cancel the March concerts […]
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