Excerpt from Elysium Newsletter
A landscape flooded with sunshine, a blue lake, smooth as a mirror, and mighty old trees in the park surrounding the monastery: This view presented itself on Sunday afternoon through the window of the Baroque Music Hall. With this fantastic scenery, our festival guests were able to experience the great concert “After Mozart” from our music director and pianist Dan Franklin Smith.
[Many artistically renowned guests] were deeply touched by this concert, which presented “great music in the shadow of Mozart,” as the Süddeutsche Zeitung noted. “This was,” as the reviewer continued, “a showcase for the internationally renowned pianist Dan Franklin Smith, who had in the past already unearthed a number of long-forgotten composers.”
Many people who came to Smith’s first solo concert in Bernried two years ago, became aware of his excellence and have returned…. [At the post-concert reception] the people from the audience expressed their enthusiasm and joy over this wonderful experience.
—From Elysium’s online newsletter, 2006