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...manager, treasurer, director and conductor of the ten-day Easter Music Festival at Salzburg, Herbert von Karajan, 59, takes on the most exhausting one-man musical spectacular since Richard Wagner ran Bayreuth. For the past month, however, the Austrian-born maestro has been flat on his back in hospitals in Munich and Paris, suffering first from flu, which developed into double pneumonia, and more recently from painful and incapacitating nerve inflammations in both legs. Though Von Karajan's recuperative powers are supposed to be second only to those of Lazarus, even his doctors are wondering whether he will...
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...