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Johannesburg · JohannesburgAmong my most telling experiences of South Africa, when I first visited in 2023, was encountering a group of uniformed schoolchildren passing through security at the Johannesburg airport. They were all singing, beautifully and happily. It is a singing country whose music wears many faces. In the omnipresence of adversity, the music is both infectious and humbling. A month ago, Kenneth Kiesler’s terrific University of Michigan Symphony Orchestra …Read Article
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Big Rock · Big RockA castle perched on a huge rock above the river plain is what I first saw on approaching Aguilar de Campoo, a small town located in the north of Palencia, a province in Castilla y León. Nothing in particular distinguished this castle from other castles seen at a distance, but since my friend and I were driving by, we decided to stop. The castle, called Aguilar Castle, is a trapezoidal structure with circular towers at the corners and an arched e…Read Article