Stories: Tour

Buongiorno, from the beautiful city of Palermo! After a long concert yesterday, the staff thought it would be best to use the day for (much-needed) R and R as we […]

Hi I’m Ceci! I graduated from High School this spring and will be going out east for college next year. This is my third year playing bass for GTCYS, and […]

Our day started with a morning tour of Pompeii. The 40-minute bus ride took us along the edge of a mountain, providing us with a beautiful view of Sorrento and […]

Today we visited the Amalfi Coast, stretching 40 kilometers, or 25 miles, in its jagged pattern from Naples to Salerno along the western side of the Italian boot shaped peninsula. […]

After 12 long days of adventure, our tour of Eastern Europe is over. We’ve experienced countless new things, and there’s quite a bit to reflect upon; I don’t think I […]

The past few days in Budapest have been filled with varying experiences since the majority of our time was spent visiting sites in small groups. Today, while some other groups […]

Egység,” or unity in Hungarian, is probably the word that best describes the past 10 days. One orchestra, made up of 103 different people, with different backgrounds and different stories, […]

We started our day today in Zakopane with a long day of transit ahead. The weather had taken a turn for the better; after a few days of growingly uncomfortable […]

In the morning, we performed for children from local schools. We performed an abbreviated program, with various cuts in the pieces. For most of our audience, this was probably the […]

“Arbeit macht frei” – Work sets you free. We set out to the distant town of Auschwitz from the Penderecki Center. As bus rides go, the roads were familiar: bumpy, […]