A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words

17 October 2016
WRITTEN BY
Geoffroy Schied

Geoffroy Schied

Musician

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When writing the tour diary, I always wonder how I should begin, what may be of interest for you, reader. Narrating the story of an MCO tour, the ordinary and the extraordinary of the days we spend together on the road, seems such a challenge with words. How to reconstruct the flow, the feelings I experience as we whiz from city to city? How to remember and sort out the memories? Small and seemingly insignificant details often don't even surface in our consciousness, and yet they participate in the lasting impressions we take home with us.

Looking back, it amazes me how photographs preserve the little things, long after we have forgotten. 

They say “a picture is worth a thousand words”, and this is for me the most natural way to tell my story of this tour.

These images are frozen moments of our days in Dortmund, Vicenza, Verona, Napoli, but also Venezia, where we enjoyed a few hours amongst friends at the end of our travel day from Dortmund to Vicenza.


Arriving on Sunday morning in Dortmund

Windswept on Lütge Brückstraße


Family time between rehearsals

Rainer Maria Rilke on our way to Vicenza

Rodin on the bus

Over the Laguna Veneta

Laurent and Tristan 

The Venetian getaway 

Vaporetto, just a regular "bus" ride at sunset

Dinner at Beccafico

Beatrice and the biscuits

Venetian nights

Emma at Villa Mosconi


Andrea Palladio, Vicenza

Piazetta Palladio, Vicenza

Piazza dei Signori, Vicenza

Emma and Tristan waiting for me

Palazzo Chiericati by Andrea Palladio, Vicenza

Matthew Truscott at the acoustic rehearsal, Vicenza

Daniel Harding, Vicenza

Teatro Comunale Città di Vicenza, Vicenza

In anticipation, Vicenza

Paulien Holthuis, Vicenza

19 minutes, Vicenza

Verona in passing

José, Stephan, Andrea and Henja backstage, Verona

Chris warming up by the Steinway, Verona

Teatro Filarmonico di Verona


Teatro Filarmonico di Verona

Souvenir from 2006, Japan tour with Daniel Harding, Mozart's last three symphonies

Frank-Michael, arrival in Napoli

Via Nuova Marina, Napoli

Quartieri Sagnoli, Napoli

From Napoli with love
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