Vienna
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2020 |
Interview
"They were jamming
classical music. (...) Where do you see that?"
On Beethoven
(and Vienna) |
Billy Joel
On
Beethoven
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Billy
Joel is interviewed about what Beethoven (and Vienna) means
to him.
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(Recorded
as part of the commemoration of the 250th anniversary of Beethoven's
birth)
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2020 |
Concert
John Williams conducts the Vienna
Philharmonic with Anne-Sophie Mutter at Vienna's Musikverein
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John Williams
Vienna Philharmonic
Anne-Sophie Mutter
The
Imperial March from
Star Wars
Theme
from
Jurassic Park
Main
Theme from
Star Wars
Hedwig's
Theme from
Harry Potter
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On
the 18th and 19th January 2020 the Musikverein
in Vienna hosted two concerts with the film composer and 5-time
Academy Award winner John Williams conducting the Vienna Philharmonic
together with Anne-Sophie Mutter.
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2015 |
Film
Tom Cruise and Rebecca Ferguson don't take the stairs
at the Vienna State Opera
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Mission: Impossible
Rogue Nation
The Vienna State Opera scene
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Two
sequences for the 5th film in the series were filmed in Vienna
in the summer of 2014. A scene on the U2 underground line. And
the scene on the roof of the Vienna State Opera.
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1995 |
Music
"This is for my father" |
Billy Joel
Vienna
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Billy
Joel dedicates a song to his Bavarian-born father who having
immigrated to the USA in 1938 returned to Europe after the war,
living for 50 years in Vienna. |
(Vienna
from the 1977 album The Stranger)
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1995 |
Film
(Maybe)
the best of the international movies filmed in Vienna
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Before Sunrise
Vienna, 1995
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"This
is what we should do . . . Get off the train with me, here in
Vienna, and come check out the town." |
Jesse is on a train to Vienna for a flight back to the US. Celine
is on her way to Paris. They get talking. The first of three
films (so far).
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Written
by: Richard Linklater & Kim
Krizan
Directed by:
Richard Linklater
Production: USA/Austria/Switzerland,
1995
Filmed: In Vienna
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1981 |
Music
"Haunting notes,
pizzicato strings" |
Ultravox
Vienna
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Filmed
at the Zentralfriedhof in Vienna's 11th district and also by
St Stephen's Cathedral. And in London's Covent Garden.
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(Midge Ure's best photograph:
Flying
to Vienna with Paula Yates)
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1973 |
Poetry
"And the deep river ran on" |
W.H. Auden
W.H. Auden
Wescoe, near Threlkeld, Cumbria
1928
Bromide
print, 1928, John Bicknell Auden
© Estate of John Bicknell Auden
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One
of the 20th century's major literary figures, W.H. Auden spent
much of his later life in Austria.
From 1958-73 Auden summered at his farmhouse in Kirchstetten
near Vienna. He died in the Austrian capital on 29th September
1973 and is buried in the cemetery at Kirchstetten. |
See W.H.
Auden page
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1949 |
Film
One of British cinema's greatest films, filmed in post-war
Vienna |
The Third Man
Film
trailer
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Carol
Reed directed Joseph Cotten, Alida Valli, Orson Welles, Paul
Hörbiger, Hedwig Bleibtreu and Trevor Howard in a Graham
Greene screenplay. Music by Anton
Karas.
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Watch
The Third Man
every week at the
Burg
Kino or do the Third
Man Tour.
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