NICEVILLE — Northwest Florida State College will host a 12-day trip in May 2016 to Austria, Germany and the Czech Republic. But first, prospective participants can attend an information session to learn more about the event.
The session is set for 5 to 6 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 22 in the art history classroom of the Art Wing of the Mattie Kelly Arts Center on the Niceville campus (Building 100, Room 328).
The trip — led by David Simmons, professor of humanities, and Ann Waters, professor of art history — includes visits to Berlin, Leipzig, Dresden, Prague, a scenic drive through the Erzgebirge mountain panoramas, Salzburg, Vienna, the Danube Valley, Schönbrunn Palace and more.
The event — open to students and the general public — includes a spring-semester evening course that prepares participants for the event's cultural aspects.
Trip participants will walk in the footsteps of Bach, Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, Brahms, Liszt, Strauss, Schubert, Mahler, Dvorak, Goethe, Klimt, Kokoschka, Kafka and others, and see where they produced masterpieces of music, art and literature.
The trip is the second led by a team of NWF State College humanities professors, following a 2007 trip to Italy.
Contact Ann Waters, 729-5302 or watersa@nwfsc.edu, for more information.
This article originally appeared on Crestview News Bulletin: Trip to Austria, Germany and Czech Republic set by Northwest Florida State College