Revisiting
@Mr. Brown picture of the Alsterstuhl in beautiful Hamburg, Germany. Hamburg is 'on' the Elbe River, but not like St. Louis is on the Mississippi River or Cincinnati is on the Ohio River. Just to the west of Hamburg the Elbe River splits into two main branches, the North Elbe and the South Elbe. The North Elbe sort of runs through the geographic center of the city while the South Elbe, well, runs through the southern part of the city. There are also many, many branch's and tributary's creating many islands and hundreds of canals in the city. If you look to the far right center of the picture there may be two branch's of the river, to the left by the red boat, another. To the left of the brick warehouse with the modern building another canal(?) and more to the left of that. To the southeast of the city the Elbe merges again into a single river.
The white boat in the left center of picture is called a paddlewheeler. You can see the red paddlewheel at the stern of the boat. Possibly a steam boat but most certainly a tourist boat for seeing the city. The brick building with the modern building on top was formerly a warehouse. It is now part of a cultural and residential complex called the
Elbphilharmonie. Between the two buildings in an observation deck. The Elbphilharmonie has three concert venues. The Great Concert Hall can accommodate 2,100 visitors whereby the performers are in the center of the hall surrounded by the audience in the
vineyard style arrangement. The
acoustics were designed by
Yasuhisa Toyota who installed about 10,000 individually microshaped drywall plates to disperse sound waves. It was supposed to be one of the best sounding concert halls ever built. However, it did not quite turn out that way.
Despite the efforts of acoustician
Yasuhisa Toyota, complaints about poor
acoustics in the hall have been aired. After the grand opening on 11 January 2017, many musicians as well as conductors called the acoustics in the hall "appaling" and "terrible". An initial review noted that "the hall is bright, very dry, direct, unforgiving. You can hear everything and immediately, for better and worse" and that "every sound—including coughs—can be heard most excellently in the hall. Every hawk, every sneeze and wheeze, every unwrapped lozenge shoots out, dry, like a daggered exclamation mark. On the other hand, in a 2019 performance of Mahler's
Das Lied von der Erde, audience members shouted, "can't hear you" at tenor
Jonas Kaufmann,
[27] who himself later complained, "This hall does not help..." Have you ever been to the Elbphilharmonie for music
@Mr. Brown?
Aerial photo of Hamburg showing the many branch's of the Elbe Rive in Hamburg and reforming just southeast of the city. The Elbe River flows to the North Sea and the Port of Hamburg is Germany's largest seaport. Please feel free to add to or make any corrections Mr. Brown
Here in beautiful Upstate New York we have steam powered paddlewheel boats on Lake George. The Minne-Ha-Ha is a paddlewheeler. The Minne-Ha-Ha has summer cruises with dinner and bands playing during the cruise. I usually get to work a few cruises a year. Once a summer they have a day long music festival, noon to midnight called Rock The Dock. I get to work that too. The boats are moored to the dock for the day. You can go on the boats for air conditioning if it is hot, or eat dinner, or just watch the show. The music is piped into each boat so it sounds just as good inside as outside.
Lake George is a tourist town with many French-Canadians coming down to work or just visit. Oh, those French women
Ooh-La-La
Much debauchery
Longball
Maybe when she is up on her feet again...
But I am the same way. Car is set up to be 'quick' not 'fast', I love picking on Ferrari's and Lamborghini's. They never suspect that a 1987 brick shaped Grandpa's Buick Regal is about to open a can of Whup-Ass on them. At the next red light they never look over at me from their half million dollar sheet metal(sore losers) but their GF's always give me a smile and thumb's up!
