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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 |
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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 |
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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. On the U2 underground line. And 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 (in the audience)
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 |
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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
(Alamy) |
Holly
Martins arrives in post-WWII Vienna. He wants to find his friend
Harry Lime. But Harry Lime is dead.
Administered by the the four Allied powers from 1945-55, the
Old Town of Vienna was a unique location in the world: the only
place where the Soviets and the West still cooperated at the
beginning of the Cold War.
If you want to get the best insight into this period of Vienna's
history then watch The Third Man.
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.
Written by:
Graham Greene
Directed by: Carol
Reed
Production: UK/USA,
1949
Filmed: In
Vienna
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Watch
The Third Man
every week at the
Burg
Kino or do the Third
Man Tour.
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