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Until recently, Vienna's sex and drug trades were centered around the Gürtel, or "belt," as locals term the outer ring road laid out in an 1890 city plan by renowned architect Otto Wagner. Prostitutes filled the pay-per-hour hotels and drug dealers lined the grimy streets, every meter of which seemed covered in lurid graffiti. But in 1996, municipal authorities[an error occurred while processing this directive] launched an urban-regeneration scheme that today is starting to bear real fruit. The sex workers and pushers are gone and a Gürtel address...
...year-old schoolboy wanted to know why no score was available for Haydn's Symphony No. 58. His teacher told him that "forty years ago a German publisher [Breitkopf & Härtel] started out to collect all of Haydn's works, but bogged down. It was too expensive and nobody cared." The 13-year-old thereupon resolved that Haydn's work should be collected and that people should be made to care. That was in 1939. By last week, at a heavyset 24, Boston's H. C. Robbins Landon was well on the way to both...
...German publishers may still not be entirely out of the running. Last week one of their Manhattan agents, Associated Music Publishers, rushed out a new score, a photo-offset reprint of a Breitkopf & Härtel edition (Mozart's Magic Flute overture), selling for $8.50 and labeled "the only authorized American reprint." A.M.P. vowed to beat Hampton prices all along the line, at a loss if necessary...
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