Germany | Dominik Mayer – Products, Asia, Productivity

A friend who had seen “Die große Welt der Filmmusik” (The Great World of Film Scores) earlier this year was delighted, and desperate to attend the sequel. I came along and was thrilled by the Klassik Radio Pops Orchestra and its conductor Nic Raine. The concert ended with two encores and richly deserved standing ovations. Nic Raine and presenter Holger Wemhoff even took the time to sign autographs and chat with the guests.

I dug around YouTube and found videos for most of the scores they had played. Don’t mind the images as they don’t always fit, just listen to the music.

• 20th Century Fox Fanfare (Alfred Newman)

• The Magnificent Seven (Elmer Bernstein)

• Harry Potter Themes (John Williams)

• Lawrence of Arabia (Maurice Jarre)

• The Sea Hawk (Erich Wolfgang Korngold)

• Wilde (Debbie Wiseman)

• Winnetou (Martin Böttcher)

• Perfume: The Story of a Murderer (Reinhold Heil, Johnny Klimek, Tom Tykwer)

• Born Free (John Barry)

• Gremlins (Jerry Goldsmith)

• Gladiator (Hans Zimmer)

• Cinema Paradiso (Ennio Morricone)

• Out of Africa (John Barry)

• Il Postino (Luis Bacalov)

• Doctor Zhivago (Maurice Jarre)

• Lord of the Rings (Howard Shore)

• Driving Miss Daisy (Hans Zimmer)

• Caravans - Suite (Mike Batt)

1. Flight Mechanics I is not Flight Mechanics II. The same applies for the exams.
2. Mechanics exams were longer two years ago.
3. On a late trip to the botanical garden it’s advisable to visit the greenhouses first.
4. If you want someone reluctant to come along, you just need to find the right person for asking.
5. Bavarian politician Gabriele Pauli wants marriage to automatically end after seven years unless it’s been renewed.
6. Coming back from Sweden to Germany is like switching from a monthly to a strip ticket.
7. Pizza in TribüHne is inexpensive and tasty.
8. You better don’t eat anything in China and use tap water only for showering, bottled water for everything else.

Deutschland. Ein Sommermärchen (Germany. A summer’s tale) was on TV today. I hadn’t seen it before and it strongly reminded me of the great ambience in summer 2006.

When talking about English and French my grandma, born 1921, said she can’t imagine speaking foreign languages having never had the chance to learn at least one. After seven years of elementary school (“Volksschule”) where she had been doing a good job, her parents didn’t have the money to buy school books. So she couldn’t attend high school but started to train as a taylor. She said she always got angry when she heard someone talking about “the good old times”. From her point of view there wasn’t anything like that.

In order to attend the Raumfahrer.net Meeting 2007 I am going to fly to Berlin tomorrow. The flight (500 km) will last 75 minutes, the train ride to the city (20 km) between 35 and 50 minutes.

By the way: The homepage of Verkehrsverbund Berlin-Brandenburg, the local public transportation network, lets you chose how you would like to change trains: normally, comfortably or slowly.

Aren’t there any fast people in the north? Or is it just a question of how you define “normally”?