Viking Today... 7/7

The itinerary today just says, "Choir practice" They're still in St. Florian. It's hard to update too much when they're staying in the same place.

An interesting tidbit I didn't post before, but some of you might know, is that Anton Bruckner was a choirboy at St. Florian and later an organist. In a way, he never stopped being the organist... He's buried beneath it!

The big event starts later on this week. The World Choir Games gets underway.

I have a bunch of info about the games courtesy of Corinne Olinger. I'll be converting that and posting it in the days to come.

In "Viking Today" news. Just a few things that I think are interesting. People from 17 states have visited this site. Other than Minnesota, Illinois is the site that's been visiting the most at 151 visits. That might be a little skewed because of the weekend I spent in Chicago but it still beats the next highest by quite a bit.

Germany, Australia, the U.K. and France have also had multiple visits to the site. All said and done, there's been almost 4,000 pageviews since I've been posting!

Viking Today... 7/5

Today the boys are leaving Munich and heading to St. Florian. A few hours in the bus to start the day off.

I believe the boys are being hosted by the St. Florian Boys Choir. They're a great choir that visited us a few years ago. Their choir, the St. Florianer Sängerknaben, is over 1,000 years old. Here's the St. Florian priory.

Here's the contact address for St. Florian.

The itinerary says there's a concert tonight, "Pfarrkirche Krematen an der Krems" I think that means, "Concert in Krematen on the Krems river" I tried to find some info about it... but there's two different rivers named Krems in Austria and two different towns named Krematen. So, I'm at a loss.