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 pilgrimacy to Verviers, Belgium for Henri VieuxtempsMarch 29, 2007 at 11:07 AM I took a wednesday free for my work for a day Belgium with a violinfriend. First we stopped near Antwerpen to buy a carte of Vieux Temps-beer (the same name as the composer) and 2 glasses. Than we drove to Liege, where I copied the 6th violinconcerto for violin/piano of Henri Vieuxtemps and Greeting for America, also for violin/piano and the violinconcerto of Gabriel Fauré. Near Liege is Verviers where Henri Vieuxtemps was born. Earlier I visited the concours Henri Vieuxtemps where 8 candidates had to play the 2th violinconcerto of Vieuxtemps.Also than I saw the statue of Vieuxtemps on a square in Verviers and the Rue(road) Henri Vieuxtemps. Now I also found his grave    The grave of Henri Vieuxtemps in Verviers Belgium, Europe. I played with a Vieux Temps bottle on his bronze violin.  Road of Henri Vieuxtemps in Verviers Belgium, Europe     I baptized the statue of Henri Vieuxtemps with Vieux Temps-beer in Verviers Belgium, Europe From Nate Robinson
Haha I'm sure Vieuxtemps enjoyed the drink.
Posted on March 29, 2007 at 2:05 PM From Charlie Caldwell
It looks as though you enjoyed yourself. What a fascinating experience.
Posted on March 29, 2007 at 10:30 PM From Jim W. Miller
After you gave Henri a beer, if you'd put some dirt from his grave in your beer you could have told everybody you were Injun brothers.
Posted on March 30, 2007 at 12:29 AM From Anne Horvath
Is Vieuxtemps beer any good? I favor Little Kings Pale Ale myself.
Posted on March 30, 2007 at 2:59 AM From Bram Heemskerk
Vieux Temps-beer is sweet and good beer. I and my parents even like it more than the Dutch beer Heineken. Some people consider the music of Henri Vieuxtemps also sweet and sugery.
Posted on March 30, 2007 at 8:29 AM From Pauline Lerner
Your photos are great. I love the story they tell.
Posted on March 30, 2007 at 8:40 AM From Anne Horvath
Bram, that was very classy to bring along a couple of glasses to drink out of, instead of just drinking out of the bottle.Posted on March 30, 2007 at 3:53 PM Did you drink the whole case of beer at the grave site? Also, this brings to mind the legend of a few Boston Symphony players having a yearly "visit" to Koussevitsky's grave. The players weren't very nice though, or so the story goes... Also, I don't think Vieuxtemps' music is sweet or sugary. I think it is passionate, and dramatic. And hard.
From Bram Heemskerk
We did not drink near his grave, but we drink 2 bottles of beer near his monument somewhere else in the city Verviers (we put those bottles on the monument-later I will show that photo). I copied that day the 6th violinconcerto of Vieuxtemps in Liege/Luik, a city near Verviers. Now I have the sheetmusic and the cd's of all his 7 violinconcerto's. I also have the sheetmusic of pieces for violin and orchestra of Fantasia Appassionata op.35 and Greeting to America, where Vieuxtemps has been in his life. And I have the sheetmusic of pieces for violin and piano op.22 and op.53. I am a very big fan of this composer. I think he is the best composer for violin and perhaps even bigger than Paganini, although not so well known.
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