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Bamberg

American  
[bam-burg, bahm-berk] / ˈbæm bɜrg, ˈbɑm bɛrk /

noun

  1. a city in N Bavaria in S Germany.


Bamberg British  
/ ˈbæmbɜːɡ, ˈbambɛrk /

noun

  1. a town in S Germany, in N Bavaria: seat of independent prince-bishops of the Holy Roman Empire (1007–1802). Pop: 69 899 (2003 est)

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Salonen was on the jury of the Gustav Mahler Conducting Competition that Dudamel won and phoned Borda from Bamberg, famously describing the boyish Dudamel as “a conducting animal.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 12, 2026

He first came to attention after winning a new conducting competition in Bamberg, Germany, in 2004, when he was 23.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 12, 2026

“Nikki, Bamberg is so very proud of you, and we wish you well in all your endeavors,” Foster said Tuesday.

From Seattle Times ● Feb. 13, 2024

Nearly a year after Nikki Haley, a former governor of South Carolina, released a video announcing her presidential campaign, she returned to the place where it was shot: her hometown of Bamberg, S.C.

From New York Times ● Feb. 13, 2024

While he was in Germany, Bobby went to Bamberg to visit Lothar Schmid, who’d served as arbiter in the 1972 match with Spassky.

From "Endgame" by Frank Brady

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