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Bram,

What a shame!! Yes, the website is very good but there are 2 very obvious and glaring faults about it. One you found out, that midday and afternoon etc are not very accurate to tune in or attend.

The second, nowhere on the website there is even a hint of a programme of each contestant!!! So all you violin hotshots know what pieces each one is playing, but it would be nice for amateurs like me to know who is playing what. (OK I recognize some pieces but mostly not)

Bram what a shame!!
Are you going to try and go to the finals?

Yes, there 2 obvious and glaring gaps in the otherwise fanatstic web coverage.

1, as you have discovered, morning, midday, am, pm are not very accurate ways to describe times
and
2, there is nowhere a sign of the programme the contestants are playing/going to play. All the fine violinist hot shots on this page should have no trouble identifying the pieces, but amateurs like me would like a hint of who is playing what...

Now I discovered that when you download :http://www.violin-competition.de/en/violinwettbewerb/presseservice/index.html "press accreditation" you can get more information about semi's between 10.00 and 14.30. I was specially interested in the semi's because of the sonate of Joachim and the modern compulsury piece.
All the Mozartconcerto's and the compulsary standard romantic concerto's I know too well and I have 5 amateurorchestra's every week, so I also can't during the finals (and you don't know from the site whether they are sold out or not) Bram, There is ticketing information onn the main page, and if you click on it, you go to another page where there is a phone number to buy tickets and also a dark blue box saying "online box office". It looks as if there are still tickets available of all different prices for Friday, and of lower prices for Saturday. But we still don't know what each competitor is playing though for the final...