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Article #461: Bond With Music

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Vienna is the music capital of the world. Knappertsbusch.
No other city evokes such immediate One floor of the museum is a "sonosphere"
associations with the great classical where sounds can be felt such as those
composers and the king of waltz. The experienced by an embryo in the womb. A
House of Music was opened in the First "future sphere" is concerned with
District, in 2000 as a museum of the 21st electronic music. On a floor for the
century. The building is a former great composers where visitors can learn
Habsburg palace where Otto Nicolai, with the aid of a computerized landscape
founder of the Vienna Philharmonic, once more of their work and lives. A large map
lived. The creative concept of the museum of Vienna from the beginning of the
combines futuristic new media nineteenth century marks all 68
applications with a strong didactic apartments where Beethoven once lived as
element. Here visitors can learn how a well as the surrounding woods and spa
musical instrument works and can try resorts where he spent the summers. A
composition, conducting and playing. A "virtual Vienna" gives visitors the
big attraction is the virtual orchestra chance to savor the city's musical
where anyone can take a baton and conduct haunts. One section, "the Exodus", is an
the Vienna Phil on a large screen with artistic reminder of the musicians who
the score of the Blue Danube or Radetzky were forced into exile or murdered by the
March. If successful the orchestra will Nazis.
reward the newcomer with applause but if One can poke his/her head into a device
the tempo is wrong the players down that looks like a salon hairdryer, sing
instruments with cries of disapproval. into the microphone, and view images that
Vienna is a city which has a very special are harmonious or discordant according to
and long relationship with Music. The the person's singing skills.
Music museum in Vienna is one of its For another type of experience one can
kinds. This new interactive museum use the "Mind Forest" to create music by
specializes in Vienna's amazing musical using one's voice, hands, and body, or
history, with exhibits on all of the turn your impromptu compositions into
city's musical legends and displays on sound in the "Future Music Blender." A CD
the mechanics of music. is prepared for it if one wants to take
Envision standing at the podium and the music home.
conducting the world's most renowned For the serious music lover one can
orchestra, the Wiener Philharmoniker. explore the Vienna Philharmonic Museum
Dreams can nearly come true at the House (which celebrates the history of the
of Music, where one can earn a degree as 150-year-old orchestra) and tour Genius
a 'virtual conductor' without even having Loci, a permanent exhibition with
graduated from the Academy of Music. The documents and memorabilia from the lives
venerable orchestra keeps the proper of Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert,
time, whether one chooses to conduct in Johann Strauss, Mahler, and Schönberg.
the manner of Herbert von Karajan or Hans






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