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i was perusing the news in germany when i passed this. my german is shaky and i'm tired, so here's the google translation. overall, i'd say it is one of the better reviews i've read about toronto. (the automatic translation of the title was so good, i had to keep it...along with whale-mart)
High-altitude flight of the dreamers
Buildings of Libeskind and Gehry, legendary jazz clubs and a flowering theatre and museum landscape: That once as boringly verschriene Toronto made itself enormous in the last years. To it immigrants from all world are not innocent.
Toronto - Bruce Bell points to the meat bar: “There in former times “the Steamboat hotel stoodâ€. The city fathers drank themselves at that time here under the table.†Even if this Gelage already took place into the 1830iger years: The salesmen in “front the Street Dominion Grocery†in Toronto sharpen the ears.
Bruce smiles and puts after: “And there over thereâ€, he says and nods toward frozen food, “ran the Henrietta's Lane, the red light quarter of the city. We had at that time 6000 inhabitants, 60 taverns and likewise many brothels.†Now the salesmen hang on his lips. Bruce goes the shelves along to the fresh flower fashion shop. “And here once the Colborn Street Theatre, one of the first theatres stood in Torontoâ€, tells it.
On the way with Torontos popular city historian tourists become acquainted with the fewer well-known sides of the Canadian metropolis. For a long time Toronto was considered as boring and conservative. Its Coming Out experienced the city only after the Second World War: Immigrants from all world made speaking Puritaner center a Multikultistadt in 40 years from the white, English. Today the population is on the average 36 years old and does not exhibit the world-wide highest portion of not inhabitants of a metropolitan city born in the country. The emergency call answers in 150 languages, a scarce dozen of ethnical quarters takes with thousands of bars and restaurants of the city the speed.
Coming out after the Second World War
Prosperity and Multikulti brought Torontos to culture scene on the way. In the meantime are more than 50 ballet and groups of dances, six opera ensembles and two symphony orchestras here at home. Live-jazz is ordered on 365 days in the year. Torontos stages apply to those in New York and London as the most productive the English speaking world. Also Hollywood already discovered Toronto since longer: Many the US-Blockbuster are turned here because of the lower costs.
Momentarily the culture in Toronto experiences a high-altitude flight been never there. For more than a billion Canadian dollar (about 630 million euro) six culture places were opened or extended. The star architect Daniel Libeskind inverted the Royal Ontario museum (ROM) a star shaped extension, the “Michael Lee Chin Crystalâ€, over. Its not less famous colleague franc Gehry transforms at present with glass and pine wood the kind Gallery OF Ontario (AGO).
With the Four Season Centre OF Performing kind got the Canadian Opera company and the national ballet the probably best opera house of North America. Recent talents received a new homeland with the Royal Conservatory OF Music, and the Toronto will shortly pull internationally into its festival Centre, an pointed-angular triangle to film festival Group from glass and steel, which will accommodate theatres, galleries and libraries about film.
Despite such megaprojects Torontos culture scene retains a human face. “We see ourselves as “Urban Farmerâ€â€, say Matthew rose sheet, one the responsible persons in Torontos newest maintenance quarter, the Historic Distillery District. The complex from 44 buildings was in 19. Century the largest Destille of the world. Today it accommodates 14 galleries, artists studios, stages, restaurants and music taverns - and not one Franchise enterprise. “The whale Marts and Starbucks would have brought as a tenant more moneysâ€, say rose sheet, who verwaschenen with beard gleaning and Jeans everything else as the picture of a successful entrepreneur delivers. “However we looked for tenant, the goods of first-class quality offer and our dream dream.â€
This dream acts to create a climate in which at the end new ideas and visions develop. Torontos only pedestrian precinct - saunter in the Distillery District the visitors over Kopfsteinpflaster - inspires already: Each shop offers something else, whereby the pallet reaches manufactured Japanese furniture chocolates house-made by glass sculptures within the six-digit price range over at the place up to. The visitor feels less as a tourist than discoverers.
Legendary jazz scene
At night Clubbing is announced. Torontos jazz scene belongs to best North America, and the Queen Street Village, whose bulge is called west Queen west to the west in the meantime and which Village the attribute abgejagt “hipâ€, is one of the most popular centers. Perhaps the night in the “Healey's†ends, to the cellar tavern of the blind jazz Rockers Jeff Healey. Jeff plays unfortunately only Thursday, says the seat neighbor, and one already is in the middle in it in a maintenance, which touches the jazz in new Orleans, Chicago and in Berlin in the time before the Nazis. The seat neighbor tells, from where its city has its name. The word Toronto, he says, comes from the Irokesensprache and means “the place, at which one meetsâ€. But one suspected that after one day in this city long.
Ole helmet living, gms
the original (in german): www.spiegel.de/reise/stae...53,00.html
High-altitude flight of the dreamers
Buildings of Libeskind and Gehry, legendary jazz clubs and a flowering theatre and museum landscape: That once as boringly verschriene Toronto made itself enormous in the last years. To it immigrants from all world are not innocent.
Toronto - Bruce Bell points to the meat bar: “There in former times “the Steamboat hotel stoodâ€. The city fathers drank themselves at that time here under the table.†Even if this Gelage already took place into the 1830iger years: The salesmen in “front the Street Dominion Grocery†in Toronto sharpen the ears.
Bruce smiles and puts after: “And there over thereâ€, he says and nods toward frozen food, “ran the Henrietta's Lane, the red light quarter of the city. We had at that time 6000 inhabitants, 60 taverns and likewise many brothels.†Now the salesmen hang on his lips. Bruce goes the shelves along to the fresh flower fashion shop. “And here once the Colborn Street Theatre, one of the first theatres stood in Torontoâ€, tells it.
On the way with Torontos popular city historian tourists become acquainted with the fewer well-known sides of the Canadian metropolis. For a long time Toronto was considered as boring and conservative. Its Coming Out experienced the city only after the Second World War: Immigrants from all world made speaking Puritaner center a Multikultistadt in 40 years from the white, English. Today the population is on the average 36 years old and does not exhibit the world-wide highest portion of not inhabitants of a metropolitan city born in the country. The emergency call answers in 150 languages, a scarce dozen of ethnical quarters takes with thousands of bars and restaurants of the city the speed.
Coming out after the Second World War
Prosperity and Multikulti brought Torontos to culture scene on the way. In the meantime are more than 50 ballet and groups of dances, six opera ensembles and two symphony orchestras here at home. Live-jazz is ordered on 365 days in the year. Torontos stages apply to those in New York and London as the most productive the English speaking world. Also Hollywood already discovered Toronto since longer: Many the US-Blockbuster are turned here because of the lower costs.
Momentarily the culture in Toronto experiences a high-altitude flight been never there. For more than a billion Canadian dollar (about 630 million euro) six culture places were opened or extended. The star architect Daniel Libeskind inverted the Royal Ontario museum (ROM) a star shaped extension, the “Michael Lee Chin Crystalâ€, over. Its not less famous colleague franc Gehry transforms at present with glass and pine wood the kind Gallery OF Ontario (AGO).
With the Four Season Centre OF Performing kind got the Canadian Opera company and the national ballet the probably best opera house of North America. Recent talents received a new homeland with the Royal Conservatory OF Music, and the Toronto will shortly pull internationally into its festival Centre, an pointed-angular triangle to film festival Group from glass and steel, which will accommodate theatres, galleries and libraries about film.
Despite such megaprojects Torontos culture scene retains a human face. “We see ourselves as “Urban Farmerâ€â€, say Matthew rose sheet, one the responsible persons in Torontos newest maintenance quarter, the Historic Distillery District. The complex from 44 buildings was in 19. Century the largest Destille of the world. Today it accommodates 14 galleries, artists studios, stages, restaurants and music taverns - and not one Franchise enterprise. “The whale Marts and Starbucks would have brought as a tenant more moneysâ€, say rose sheet, who verwaschenen with beard gleaning and Jeans everything else as the picture of a successful entrepreneur delivers. “However we looked for tenant, the goods of first-class quality offer and our dream dream.â€
This dream acts to create a climate in which at the end new ideas and visions develop. Torontos only pedestrian precinct - saunter in the Distillery District the visitors over Kopfsteinpflaster - inspires already: Each shop offers something else, whereby the pallet reaches manufactured Japanese furniture chocolates house-made by glass sculptures within the six-digit price range over at the place up to. The visitor feels less as a tourist than discoverers.
Legendary jazz scene
At night Clubbing is announced. Torontos jazz scene belongs to best North America, and the Queen Street Village, whose bulge is called west Queen west to the west in the meantime and which Village the attribute abgejagt “hipâ€, is one of the most popular centers. Perhaps the night in the “Healey's†ends, to the cellar tavern of the blind jazz Rockers Jeff Healey. Jeff plays unfortunately only Thursday, says the seat neighbor, and one already is in the middle in it in a maintenance, which touches the jazz in new Orleans, Chicago and in Berlin in the time before the Nazis. The seat neighbor tells, from where its city has its name. The word Toronto, he says, comes from the Irokesensprache and means “the place, at which one meetsâ€. But one suspected that after one day in this city long.
Ole helmet living, gms
the original (in german): www.spiegel.de/reise/stae...53,00.html
