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Music lovers find special delights in Austria. In Salzburg at my favorite hotel, I lay in bed a hundred meters from Mozart’s Dad. He’s just outside my window in the graveyard of the St. Sebastian ...
News Austria » Music: Austria celebrates 200 years of 'waltz king' Johann Strauss II
VIENNA, Austria — Even 200 years after the birth of Austria's world-famous "waltz king" Johann Strauss II -- widely revered like a modern-day pop star during his lifetime -- his music has lost none of ...
News Austria » Music: Austria welcomes JJ back home with cheers, hugs and roses after winning Eurovision Song Contest
VIENNA (AP) — Austrian fans enthusiastically welcomed classically trained singer JJ back home at Vienna airport on Sunday after he won the 69th Eurovision Song Contest with "Wasted Love." As JJ walked ...
News Austria » Music: Austria wins Eurovision Song Contest with Israel second
Austria has won this year’s Eurovision Song Contest in Switzerland. JJ took top prize on 436 points with the emotional song Wasted Love. The Israeli entry, New Day Will Rise, sung by Yuval Raphael, ...
News Austria » Music: ‘The Sound of Music’: The Real von Trapp Family Didn’t Escape Austria On Foot
The Sound of Music is set around 1938 in Austria, with the onset of WWII looming nearby. It focuses on a kind and gentle woman named Maria, who was sent to be a governess for a widow, Georg von Trapp, ...
News Austria » Music: Austria welcomes home JJ after he wins Eurovision Song Contest with ‘Wasted Love’
VIENNA — Austrian fans enthusiastically welcomed classically trained singer JJ back home at Vienna airport on Sunday after he won the 69th Eurovision Song Contest with “Wasted Love.” As JJ walked ...
News Austria » Music: In pictures: Austria welcomes JJ back home after Eurovision win
Austrian fans have enthusiastically welcomed JJ back home at Vienna airport after the artist won the 69th Eurovision Song Contest with the popera song ‘Wasted Love’. As JJ, whose full name is Johannes ...
News Austria » Music: As an Austrian, I Am Baffled by America’s Love for The Sound of Music
Contrary to popular opinion “Edelweiss” is not the Austrian national anthem. They forced me to watch it. Never in a million years would I have watched it of my own accord. But I had no choice. My ...
News Austria » Music: Austria Delights Music Lovers
Music lovers find special delights in Austria. At my favorite hotel in Salzburg, I lie in bed a hundred meters from Mozart's dad. He's just outside my window in the graveyard of the St. Sebastian ...