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The Alois Kottmann Award is an international prize that is given to a person for making the best performances in playing the classical cantando violin. In the award ceremony, the noted and well known international violinists are being rewarded. The competition every year is organized in either month of May or June during the International Days of Music Hesses. After the competition, the award is given on a different date by the Mayor of the city of Frankfurt am Main in the Limpurg Hall of the historic city hall Romer.

The main objective for starting this award is to help and promote the Frankfurt-based tradition of Carl Flesch. The pioneer’s exponents of this style of music were Alma Moodie and Max Rostal. The jury while selecting artists plays a special focus upon the classical discipline, on an artistic and stilistic understanding and learning of the performed work as well as singing (cantando) style that even shows up the personality of the artists.

The award ceremony for this program gets organized at The Romer (city hall) in Frankfurt am Main, where the award ceremony occurs and took place. The Alois Kottmann Award began in year 2001. The award was named after its founder and benefactor, the German violinist and university professor Alois Kottmann. Initially, when the prize started there only a participant use to get award and there special awards were given to special talent and performances. However, the situation improved soon in year 2005, when the two participants received the award. In the year 2006 and 2007, the special appreciation award was given with side to the main award and prizes. Moreover, the prestigious “Bach Award of the city of Hofheim am Taunus was provided in the year 2007 to Sabrina-Vivian Hopcker of Germany. In year 2010, the first and second places of the Alois Kottmann Award were created along with other awards as well.

The prize is consisted of the prize money of about 3,000 euro, a silver medal and a certificate. Moreover, the special prizes are given if there any special need arises there.   It is an open competition for violinist around the Globe. There is no such age bar. In competition, there musical pieces are needed to be performed that are needed to be published well in advance and keeps on changing, annually. Recipient of the awards for year 2010 are Jayoung Jeon, South Korea, Oleksii Semenenko, Ukraine, Liv Migdal, Germany/Sweden, Katja Schott, Ukraine and Christopher, Taiwan.

The Internationale Automobil-Ausstellung which is known as the Frankfurt Motor Show or Frankfurt Auto Show is the world’s largest motor show. It is organized for every two years in Frankfurt, Germany. It is organized by the Association of the German Automotive Industry (VDA). From the year 1991, the show has been split into two sections. At even numbered years show exhibits the commercial vehicles in Hanover and in the odd-numbered year’s passenger vehicles are put for the show at the Frankfurt exhibition ground. The dates for the show are scheduled by the Organisation Internationale des Constructeurs d’Automobiles and they are meant as a major show.

The show for the first time was organized as mini show at the Hotel Bristol in Berlin. From 1911, it started being organized as annually twice a year, generally in Berlin. In the year 1921 about 67 exhibitors participated in the first IAA in Berlin. After World War I, between 1921 and 1926 no exhibitor was allowed to participate. In the year 1971 that was the 45th IAA was cancelled on a very short notice for political reasons to discourage passenger car purchases.  At the time the concept of “Automechanika ’71, International Exhibition for Automobile, Workshop, Filling Station and Garage Equipment” generated. Thus Messe Frankfurt gave the automobile, equipment, accessories and other companies normally represented at the IAA to showcase their automobile items.

The September eleven terror attacks cast out a shadow over the IAA that somehow occurred with delay of two days. To show solidarity with the victims, the show elements, loud music as well as official opening with the Federal Chancellor was cancelled. VDA President Gottschalk praised this decision as stating, “Because we could not permit terrorist forces to take away our freedom of action. And because, as a key international sector, we have a responsibility not to allow things to grind to a halt.”

The year of 2007, brought the trend of the hybrid cars and electric vehicles in the 2007 Frankfurt Motor Show.  As Mercedes-Benz there come at the show with about seven hybrids, involving the luxury sedan concept vehicle, named the F 700, a 17-foot (5.2 m)-long car can gain the fuel economy of about 44.4 miles per gallon. There research vehicle with homogenous charge compression ignition engine, a technology that produces the high fuel economy of a diesel engine from a clean-burning gasoline engine, was exhibited. Mercedes has showed its car with the technology of mated its clean-diesel engine to an electric motor, creating the Bluetec hybrid. More the Mercedes Car Group showed its smart car in three new different avatars as well.

In Frankfurt, there are many spots for popular music as well there many places that a music lover must visit in Frankfurt. These music spot even varies according to the popular music existing in the city. Below are mentioned some spots for favorite live music in Frankfurt.

• Dreikönigskeller: In operation since 1988, Dreikonigskeller is the favorite spot for party throwers and the happy rave partiers. The club presents a completely different music theme every night and crowd too arrives there depending upon the choice of music.  Some of the more popular night music there includes jazz and blues, rare grooves from the 60s and 70s, R&B and soul, new wave and 80s.

• Sinkkasten: It is a sort of identification in music in Frankfurt since 1971, as it has hosted a nice array of stars and programs there including the Mingus to Guthrie and others. Music lovers come here to enjoy the music and let people to watch out the some of the aristocrats and celebrities from the city. You even call for the website for event schedule and performance calendar.

• Batschkapp: This extraordinary live music venue was started in 1976 and since then is an important center of music for the natives of Frankfurt. Many popular groups like Einstürzende Neubauten, Ginger Baker, Uriah Heep, Robert Cray, The Pogues, U.K.Subs, Supergrass Korn, Hüsker Dü, the Housemartins, PJ Harvey, Billy Bragg and Die have given their performances here. Though the club is small yet its acoustics are great and huge to a massive extent.

• Der Frankfurter Jazzkeller: In the center of Frankfurt, in a basement grotto, Louis Armstrong, Dizzy Gillespie, Eddie Harris, Chet Baker and a host of other jazz greats enjoyed their music and left out impressive marks, more you can have one of the best beer selections over there.

• Jazzlokal Mampf: If someone is fond of Jazz and wish to enjoy the live jazz and blues in Frankfurt then it is the right place and spot in the city to enjoy the live and apparent music. Here you can have some of the best regional musicians from the area that give solo as well as group performances and you will be there accompanied by group of performers.

• Tigerpalast: This is one of the best spots in town to view and enjoy the sexist and hot performances in town. There at every two-hour, cabaret-style dances are performed having performance from the wide ranges including acrobats, trapeze dances to the animal acts. TigerPalast is actually formed of four different types including the theater, a fine restaurant, a bistro, and a bar. And to have completed entertainment you can book a dinner and a show package.

• U60311: This is one of the popular spot for dance in Frankfurt. You will get this spot to be always filled with crowd and completely packed on every Friday and Saturday with music savvy folks to get hanged on the things. There you can be acquainting with varied forms of DJ stylist. You even can listen to various forms of DJs as keeping moving until the late hours.