36 Years Ago

36 Years Ago, Vienna 1971—A Student Journal

Day 241: Back to Bohème

Day 241 — Back to Bohème
30-March-1972 (Donnerstag–Thur.)

A good day ends with Giacomo Puccini’s
La Boheme at the Staatsoper, and a beer.
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Day 118: Music and art

Day 118 — Music and art
28-November-1971 (Sun.)


Contemporary art films are the focus of today’s journal. What do you see when looking at a film with flowers?
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Day 100: 100th Anniversary

Day 100 — 100th Anniversary
10-November-1971 (Wed.)

IU La Boheme stream 01
I take a single line of journal text and expand it into a discourse about my music studies at Indiana University. Read, you may find it interesting. The photos on this posting are from yesterday's Indiana Unversity live performance and streaming of La Boheme.

It’s our 100th anniversary. 100 days.
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Day 099: Life events

Day 99 — Life events
09-November-1971 (Tues.)


1971 is uneventful. 2007 has an important announcement (though I don't talk about it). Lesson today—throughout life there will always be things that happen, surprise us, and cause us to make important decisions.
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Day 052: Standing room only, La Bohème

Day 52 — Standing room only, La Bohème
23-September-1971 (Thur.)

Vienna Staatsoper at night
Standing room only, please. That’s the ticket (10 schillings) to seeing a lot of opera for us students. And what an opera it is, “La Bohème,” a Puccini favorite.
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