JAN 1, special events: New Years' Day concert, Vienna

 a) Reprise of material posted on January 1 in previous years ...

2020: territory demarcation, the start of a new blog (explanation) 

2021: new world palindromes, #43 (wordplay maps)
2022: insects, toothpick grasshoppers (illustrated poem)
2023: urban concerns, botanical conservatory (illustrated poem)

2024: birdlore, birds in flight  (photo-collage)

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bird-of-paradise plant,
Conservatory, TOronto

b) Today's Offering (Jan 1, 2025): 

If today is January 1, we must be in Austria!

(PBS viewer's world-view)

Christian Thielemann, conducting the Vienna Philharmonic

    interior of the Musikverein, Viennese concert hall

              

dancers from the Vienna State Ballet,
 a fixture of the second part of the television programme

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