After our initial three days in Warsaw we travelled down to beautiful Krakow, one of the most charming of central Europe’s old cities. It’s where old and new Poland come together and it’s another of our stops that I’d like to spend more time in.
Here is another video montage of some of the sites and sounds of this jewel of a city.

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Once you help us put together the ultimate KDFC Summer Soundtrack, we will slap the Top 100 suggestions onto an iPod for you just in time for some very musical summer fun.  Rumor is that gas prices will actually go down this summer, making the proverbial summer road trip more affordable than it’s been in years.   Here’s a list of Top 10 Road Trips compiled by Yahoo that will have you singing America the Beautiful:
 http://travel.yahoo.com/p-interests-3434…

Our Beautiful Big Sur

Summertime! Barbeques, road trips, picnics, hanging out at the beach, going for a hike. A great Northern California summer deserves a great soundtrack. What’s the perfect piece of music for the summer?

Share your #1 favorite, and you could win tickets the San Francisco Symphony’s Summer and the Symphony concerts. (listed below)

You have the whole ‘classical and then some’ universe to choose from…from Mozart…to the Movies…and more! Just post the composer and piece on this blog below, why you like it and why you think it should “make the list”.

We’ll put a list together of Your KDFC Summer Soundtrack, and play them back all summer long.

And, starting in mid-June, we’ll have a pre-loaded iPod and flashdrive with 100 pieces – Your KDFC Summer Soundtrack!

Let’s hear it! Be sure to check back here to the blog to see what others are choosing too.

The San Francisco Symphony’s Summer & The Symphony concerts are:

• Thu, July 8: my classic American composers

• Sat, July 10: my classic Beethoven

• Sun, July 18: my classic Tchaikovsky

• Thu, July 22: my classic New World

• Fri, July 23: my classic Russian Composers

• Sat, July 24: Summer & The Symphony Grand Finale

Here’s all you do:

Step 1: Click on “COMMENTS” below to post your nominated piece.

Step 2: It will ask you for your name and email address (required). Your name will be posted, your email address WILL NOT be posted. Also, it asks for a website address – if you have one, fill it in, otherwise you can leave that blank.

Step 3: Type in the 2 words the system will ask you for in the text box. This is a spam filter.

We have been on the road for nearly a week, our intrepid group of KDFC claasical fans. Today we finished up Krakow and are heading to Prague tomorrow. Along the way we have heard the history and visited some of Poland’s most treasured sites,enjoyed glorious live music of Chopin, Bach, gypsy, Klezmer and more. The only challenge has been the weather – rain and cold most of the time, but with travel comes the unexpected. The Polish people are proud of their past and do so much to keep alive their collective accomplishmnets and celebrate their heroes – Chopin, Copernicus, Marie Curie (born Maria Skłodowska in Warsaw) and many more.

Here is my video blog from our first moments in Poland.

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The world was stunned by Thursday May 6th’s stock market activity and so I couldn’t resist poking some fun at it. Humor breaks the tension, right?

Here’s the list:

“It was a wild day on Wall Street Thursday with the Dow losing 347 points. In other financial news:

• Helium was up.
• Feathers were down.
• Beef steered into a bull market.
• Paper was stationary.
• Fluorescent tubing was dimmed in light trading.
• Pencils lost a few points.
• Hiking equipment was trailing.
• Elevators rose.
• Escalators continued their slow decline.
• Weights were up in heavy trading.
• Light switches were off.
• Mining equipment hit rock bottom.
• Shipping lines stayed at an even keel.
• The market for raisins dried up.
• Coca Cola fizzled.
• Caterpillar stock inched up a bit.
• Balloon prices were inflated.
• Diapers remain unchanged.”

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