Live from Vienna 2017 New Year's Day Concert


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Welcome to the Musikverein for the climax

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of the Vienna Philharmonic New Year's Day Concert.

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A sunny, crisp and chilly start to the New Year.

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The place is as rich and glorious in its design and acoustic

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as a slice of Esterhazy Torte is in its taste and texture.

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The New Year's Day concert performance by the Vienna

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of the orchestra's 175th anniversary season,

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and also the New Year debut of Gustavo Dudamel,

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the Venezuelan musician, 35 years old,

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the youngest conductor ever to lead this annual concert.

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Well, Franz von Suppe was the father of Viennese operetta.

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Born in Split, now in Croatia, but once part

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who came to Vienna at 16 to study at the Conservatoire.

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He created more than 200 stage works,

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most of them relegated to dusty shelves,

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but the overture to Pique Dame, The Queen Of Spades,

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Gustavo Dudamel makes his way onto the platform.

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The Vienna Philharmonic rises to its feet

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MUSIC: Overture from the operetta Pique Dame

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The overture to Franz von Suppe's Pique Dame.

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Gustavo Dudamel conducting the Vienna Philharmonic.

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Ballet has long been a popular part of the New Year's Day Concert,

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and this year we meet dancers from the Vienna State Ballet

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in the park of the Hermesvilla, built by the Emporer Franz Josef

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in an attempt to curb the wanderlust of his beloved wife Sisi.

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The music is a waltz from Der Schatzmeister,

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MUSIC: Hereinspaziert! by Carl M Ziehrer

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Gustavo Dudamel conducting the waltz 'Step Right Up'.

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From Der Schatzmeister by Carl Michael Ziehrer.

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The tale of an assessor working in a pawnbroker 's office.

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The Italian Renato Zanella, who was artistic director

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at the Vienna State Ballet for ten years, is the choreographer

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Singverein, an amateur chorus long associated with the orchestra.

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They are going to join the Vienna Philharmonic in

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the 'Moonrise' from Otto Nicholai's comic opera 'The Merry Wives

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Last year we marked the 400th anniversary

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of William Shakespeare's death - this year in Vienna the celebrations

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are for the 175th anniversary of the founding of the Vienna

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And Otto Nicholai was one of the three men who, in 1842,

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decided to found a professional orchestra in this city.

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Nicolai set out the rules, which survive to this day,

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the orchestra is self governing, players appoint the conductor,

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and divide the earnings amongst themselves.

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The Vienna Singverein and Philharmonic honouring

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Otto Nicholai, one of the orchestra's founders 175 years ago.

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Moonrise, from his opera 'The Merry Wives of Windsor'.

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Just a second to enjoy the flowers decorating the Golden Hall.

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30,000 blossoms, nurtured for today by the staff

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of Vienna's Municipal Department No 42 - which runs the city's

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The director keen to reflect on the rich colours of Venezuela,

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Deep pink and green flamingo flowers, cymbidia.

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MUSIC: Pepita-Polka by Johann Strauss II

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That was The Pepita Polka by Johann Strauss.

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Strauss honouring a famous Spanish dancer who came to Vienna.

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Strauss responding to events around him,

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as he did again in 1873 when the Rotunda opened for the 1873

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World Exhibition in Vienna - it had an English architect.

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Strauss wrote a quadrille in honour of the building.

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MUSIC: Rotunde-Quadrille by Johann Strauss II

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written by Strauss for the World's Fair of 1873.

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Alas, weeks of rainfall, a cholera epidemic,

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a stock-market crash and global economic crisis

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The rotunda was finally destroyed by a fire in 1937.

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A reminder that you can see the New Year's Day Concert

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Meanwhile, Radio 3 is preparing a bracing start to 2017

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celebrating the Second Viennese School,

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the modernists making their name here at the start

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of the 20th century - Webern, Berg and Schoenberg.

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Breaking Free: The Minds That Changed Music

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starts this afternoon on Radio 3 and runs all week.

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The famous Lipizzaner horses are one of the symbols of Vienna.

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We'll see them next as we visit the Spanish Riding School,

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accompanied by Strauss's waltz The Extravagants.

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By the way, they are not actually white horses, they are dark, they

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get progressively lighter grey each year.

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MUSIC: Die Extravaganten by Johann Strauss II

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Gustavo Dudamel conducting the Vienna Philharmonic

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in Johann Strauss Junior's waltz The Extravagants,

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His father now, and a galop he composed after a group

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of Indian classical dancers visited Vienna in the late 1830s.

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Received, it seems, with confused curiosity from the Viennese public.

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MUSIC: Indianer-Galopp by Johann Strauss

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The Indian Galop by Johann Strauss Senior.

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Working our way through the family, his middle son Josef next,

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a valley in southeastern Lower Austria,

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predominantly by Protestant timber workers.

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This is the polka, The Girl From Nasswald.

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MUSIC: Die Nasswalderin by Johann Strauss

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A man who can play the whistle and conduct at the same time.

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The Girl from Nusswald - by Josef Strauss.

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More dancing next this New Year's morning.

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You may have detected that the ballet we saw earlier

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Next though we have dancers actually with us here

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in the Musikverein - students of the Vienna State

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They are going to dance to a Polka Johann Strauss

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wrote for a party at his own Palace in Vienna's 4th District in 1888.

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A hundred guests, the last of whom didn't leave

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Maybe you can relate to that this morning.

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MUSIC: Auf zum Tanze! By Johann Strauss II

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A comedy role for one of the ushers here at the Musikverein,

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or maybe he was a costumed dancer.

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Strauss's first operetta was called

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The work rather struggled under an incredibly complicated storyline.

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But the waltz that emerged from the project,

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'A Thousand and One Nights', is considered one of Strauss's finest.

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MUSIC: Tausend und eine Nacht by Johann Strauss II

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Gustavo Dudamel conducting the Vienna Philharmonic.

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Now, Vienna has museums filled with Old Masters,

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but it also has museums dedicated to globes, to funerals,

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all of which make the clock museum seem pretty mainstream.

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with Johann Strauss' Tik-Tak-Polka from Die Fledermaus.

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It's located in one of the oldest houses in the centre of the city,

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and it's home to around 4,000 clocks,

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MUSIC: Tik-Tak by Johann Strauss II

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That comes from Strauss's operetta Die Fledermaus,

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one of the traditions of New Year in Vienna,

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on last night and again this evening,

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at the both the Volksoper and the Vienna State Opera,

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where Otto Schenk's lavish production gets another outing.

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Other New Year traditions here include the bells

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of the Stephansdom ringing out the old and in the new,

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loud fireworks across the city, pigs in porcelain,

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glass and marzipan to bring good luck,

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and Dinner For One on the television.

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Its punch line - "Same procedure as every year" -

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seems to rather reflect the continuity

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One member of the Strauss family missing until now.

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Eduard next, the youngest of the brothers,

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Who became conductor of the Strauss Orchestra in 1861,

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touring with them across two continents,

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and performing in 840 towns and cities.

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When he disbanded the orchestra in New York in 1901,

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the last work on the programme was the fast polka With Pleasure.

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MUSIC: Mit Vergnugen by Eduard Strauss

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Eduard Strauss's polka With Pleasure.

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The Vienna Philharmonic players and Maestro Dudamel

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And British too, designed by Dame Vivienne Westwood

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and her Austrian husband, Andreas Kronthaler,

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tailored in the elegant cut of Savile Row bespoke,

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a modern interpretation of the traditional tailcoat for men,

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get a short jacket inspired by a frock coat.

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The outfits making their first appearance on stage today.

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175 years of the Vienna Philharmonic,

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First heard in February 1867 at a ball in Leopoldstadt district,

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then performed with words sung by choir.

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The Austrian Mint has produced silver five euro coin to celebrate.

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Rather appropriate, as Strauss was paid one gold ducat

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A work that over the years has become an unofficial

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key to the New Year and this New Year's Day Concert.

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Conducted by Gustavo Dudamel, the director of the LA Philharmonic and

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the Simon Bolivar Orchestra of Venezuela.

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MUSIC: An der schonen blauen Donau by Johann Strauss II

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Die Wiener Philharmoniker und ich wunschen Ihnen...

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MUSIC: An der schonen blauen Donau by Johann Strauss II

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The Blue Danube, by Johann Strauss Junior,

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This Orchestra, 175 years old this year.

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Gustavo Dudamel, at 35, the youngest conductor ever to lead

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There is one New Year tradition left.

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It was an Austrian Army Band who premiered Strauss Senior's

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Then it was the officers who clapped and stamped their heels

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Now the entire audience of the Musikverein beats something

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MUSIC: Radetzky-Marsch by Johann Strauss

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Great direction of the audience here from Gustavo Dudamel.

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The Radetsky March - by Johann Strauss Junior.

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And so 2017 is upon us, no stopping the clock or the calendar.

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As Walter Scott once said "Each age has deemed the new-born year

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Cheer may be in shorter supply than usual this New Year. But I hope the

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rich tradition of this concept has brought some joy. Julie Andrews

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presents this concert on American television. The audience may look

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well behaved but as soon as we go off air there will be something of a

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scrambled to grab the flowers. With many thanks to our colleagues

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at ORF and Eurovision - this is Petroc Trelawny bidding

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you farewell from Vienna and wishing Oh, my...

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Dai! Your gays have arrived.

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