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Friday, April 6, 2012

Spanish Songs in the Basement of Vienna's Mozarthaus

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A friend sent an email telling me that a free concert was being held on Wednesday (April 4) at the Bösendorfer Room of the Mozart House, fea...
Friday, March 30, 2012

Grisly Results as the Song-of-the-Earth Jinx Strikes Again

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Loyal readers of this blog will recall from my last post that in the past forty-something years I have attended (or tried to) three perfor...
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Thursday, March 29, 2012

The "Song of the Earth" Jinx

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In the past half century, I have gone three times to hear Mahler’s Das Lied von der Erde (Song of the Earth) played at Vienna’s Musikverei...
Saturday, March 3, 2012

Mrs. Wittenberg's Postcard Album

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When Mrs. Rose Marie Eichhorn Wittenberg of Little Rock died in 1961, she left her belongings to her son Walter Wittenberg Jr. Among the thi...
Tuesday, February 21, 2012

Taking Stock II: Eclecticatbest's Most Read Blog Entries

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I started this blog in April 2011 , mainly as a learning exercise, as an outlet for a bunch of little research projects that I was undertaki...
Sunday, February 19, 2012

Taking Stock: My Scribd Best Sellers

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A little over a year ago , I started posting some documents on the Scribd.com website.  All of these documents are accessible at  http://www...
Saturday, February 11, 2012

A Great Night at Cafe Louvre in Vienna

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I have never spent a night at Cafe Louvre in Vienna and never will. It is long gone, shut down by Austria's Nazi government in 1940, the...
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Tuesday, January 24, 2012

Russian Dining in Birch Bay, WA

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I have been fortunate to make the acquaintance of the Kiras, Birch Bay residents who retired here after decades of owning and operating rest...
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