Target 121121

TARGET 121121

THE MAIN CONCERT HALL OF
THE LUCERNE CONCERT AND CONGRESS BUILDING
IN LUCERNE, SWITZERLAND

^{The main hall, prepared for the Lucerne "At the
Piano" Festival}

Lucern, Switzerland has one of the leading cultural schools in the world. It also provides a very beautiful and unique place to showcase leading talents, both established and upcoming. That place is the modern and beautiful "Culture and Congressional Center of Lucerne", or the "KKL", as it is more generally known, (the abbreviation of the German name for the building: Kultur- und Kongresszentrum Lucern).

While the building complex is vast and has many very astounding features, it is the grand Concert Hall that is the target for this viewing. The hall, by itself, is one of the many viewing targets this building offers.

^{The grand performance}

Looking like some modern Roman Forum, the concert hall in Lucern, Switzerland has a stage surrounded by rows of people front and sides at stage level, and tier after tier of balcony seating, rising high above the stage.

The grand performance of the festival is held there in the spender of this unique auditorium.

^{From the back of the audience}

^{From the stage}

^{From the top balcony}

^{Since the stage is completely surrounded, performers
enter onto the stage from a panel

beneath the first tier, at the back of the stage.}

NOTE TO VIEWERS: Knowing that different viewers will naturally focus in on what interests them about the many different activities that take place here, I have provided some feedback for the major ones. You do not need to have descriptors of all the events, any one or few is sufficient to show that you had site contact and found what interests you. If you do have a mixture of perceptions from different events, that is also no problem. Many viewers, moving back and forth in time, will perceive parts of the different events. It only shows that you have the ability to move through time at a site. It's a good thing.

Three festivals are held here each year:

The "Festival at Easter" (At Eastertime)
The "Festival in Summer" (late August-early September)
The "Festival at the Piano" (November)
It also hosts a myriad of other festivals and standard concert events, such as:

^{The Drum & Wind instrument festivals}

^{Classical, Patriotic & religious music concerts}

^{Choral & orchestral concerts}

^{Vocal artists}

^{Political speeches to the nation and political debates}

^{Conferences & conventions

And a myriad of other educational and entainment events}

^{But some say that the most beloved event by the Swiss and
visitors alike is the

"Festival at the Piano", where the artistry of
the world's top pianists

show what wonders they, and the piano, can do.}

FEEDBACK MAP

If you got impressions for which this feedback is insufficient, more information,
pictures and videos can be found at the following web sites:

My Switzerland web site
Yearly program schedule & ticket information
The KKL "Festival at the Piano"
The Concert Hall information page
NOTE: The last link, above, has a 360 degree interactive
view of the concert hall. As you move about it, you will
find three blinking red circles which will let you view
the hall from the three main locations. It is definitely
worth looking at for your feedback.

TARGET 121121

THE MAIN CONCERT HALL OF THE LUCERNE CONCERT AND CONGRESS BUILDING IN LUCERNE, SWITZERLAND

THE MAIN CONCERT HALL OF
THE LUCERNE CONCERT AND CONGRESS BUILDING
IN LUCERNE, SWITZERLAND