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Topic: Help with places to go and people to see!  (Read 1529 times)

Offline danyal

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Help with places to go and people to see!
on: June 18, 2005, 09:24:29 PM
I live in South Africa, and am about to go on a trip to Austria and Italy. I've already made a few appointments with music schools to meet them etc, but other than that I'm clueless. I want to see as many concerts, go to as many musically cultural places, meet as many international musical contacts, and just squeeze the most out of the next 3 weeks as possible!

Please give me suggestions as to venues, people, places etc
Thanks,
Danyal
I dont play an instrument, I play the piano.