Word: austrian
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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PURSUIT OF EXCELLENCE: THE VIENNA CHOIR BOYS (ABC, 7:30-8:30 p.m.). Alfred Drake narrates this look at the life and training of the young Austrian choristers...
...this Olympic year, with everyone giving it an extra push, that triple first ranking puts triple pressure on Jean-Claude. In the season's first big race at Val d'Isère, Killy came in fourth behind Austria's Gerhard Nenning, another Frenchman and another Austrian. In the second big meet at Hindelang, he placed second in the two slaloms, both of which were won by Switzerland's unheralded Edmund Bruggmann. At après-ski parties, the buzz began: was something wrong with Killy? The answer from the French: don't be silly...
...Music is a $30 million item on Austria's national and regional budgets, and it is the cornerstone of the country's biggest industry, the annual $600 million tourist trade. The Vienna State Opera's $10 million subsidy is bigger than the budget for the entire Austrian foreign service. With ten major orchestras and seven opera houses, Austria has ample opportunities for musicians, and 4,000 of its youngsters are currently studying music with an eye to sharing in the rewards, financial as well as artistic. There are, in fact, 7,500 professional musicians in Austria -about...
...lifetime, he received a bronze medal at the first International Exhibition in London (1851), and Prince Metternich tried to persuade him to be cabinet-maker to the Austrian court. Thonet accepted this role part-time, but he was primarily interested in the mass production and distribution of inexpensive chairs of all types--all of them lightweight, and so attractive as to be worthy of a Prince...
...most concertgoers a generation ago, Joseph Haydn was the composer of only twelve symphonies (inexplicably numbered 93-104), a few string quartets and the Austrian national anthem. According to the music-appreciation crowd, he was a genial papa figure who enjoyed a joke at the audience's expense and turned out a great deal of tinkly, tinseled music to light up the ballrooms of the Austrian nobility...