International Field Trip: Discover the Great Musical Cities of Europe

Spring Break in Budapest, Graz and Vienna

March 11-21, 2010

This international field trip will offer a musical journey through the Hapsburg Empire. For nearly five centuries (1526-1918) Austrians and Hungarians lived together under one state. Join us on a journey through their major urban centers, Vienna and Budapest - cities that developed rich and unique musical traditions and became dominant centers of European culture. In the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, Vienna was a civic and cultural crossroads that attracted Haydn, Mozart and Beethoven as well as others creative geniuses in art, architecture, literature, philosophy, and the sciences. Béla Bartók, who memorialized Magyar peasant music in his compositions and who is regarded along with Franz Liszt as one of his country’s finest composers, lived and worked in Budapest. The field trip includes a visit to Montclair's sister city of Graz, a beautiful medieval city which also served as a musical borderland between Central Europe, Italy and the Balkan States.  Students will have an opportunity to attend concerts and meet with fellow students and professors at the Liszt Academy in Budapest and at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Graz.

Estimated Program Cost: $2,200

Including airfare, hotel, tickets, lectures, tours

To secure a place for the trip: www.montclair.edu/globaled/StudyAbroad

$1,000 Deposit by November 15

Second Deposit by December 15

Payment in full by February 1

For further information http://www.montclair.edu/GlobalEd/studyabroad/summer/tours/musichistory.html 

or contact directly:

Wendy Gilbert-Simon at the Global Education Center simonW@mail.montclair.edu

 The trip will be led by Prof. Laura Dolp from the John J. Cali School of Music DOLPL@mail.montclair.edu