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	MSN Encarta - Festivals and Feasts
		Such secular celebrations differ from religious festivals and feasts in that the focus is not on the significance of the rituals of holy days of a particular faith but on the public honoring of outstanding persons, the commemoration of important historical or cultural events, or the re-creation of cherished folkways.
		Festivals celebrating the founding of a nation or the date of withdrawal of foreign invaders from its borders bind its citizens in a unity that transcends personal concerns.
		Festivals honoring the Icelandic explorer Leif Eriksson, who discovered Vinland, are held on October 9 in Iceland and Norway and in the United States in Wisconsin and Minnesota.
	encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761573243/Festivals_and_Feasts.html (1423 words)

	AllRefer.com - Salzburg Festival (Music: History) - Encyclopedia
		The festival may be considered a descendant of the Salzburg Music Festival Weeks that the Vienna Philharmonic gave irregularly between 1877 and 1910.
		The festival probably achieved its greatest brilliance in the 1930s, when Arturo Toscanini and Bruno Walter were its leading conductors.
		Performances of music and drama at the Salzburg Festival are given in the "Old" Festival Hall, the "New" Festival Hall (built 1960), and the 17th-century Riding School in the Cliff, an arena that can be roofed over.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/S/SalzFest.html (484 words)

	Salzburg
		Salzburg (population 145,000 in 2003) is a city in western Austria and the capital of the federal state of Salzburg (population 520,000 in 2003).
		Salzburg was the home for about 15 years of the writer Stefan Zweig until he left in 1934.
		Salzburg was also a candidate city for the Olympic Winter Games in 2010 but was eliminated from the final three cities in the first round of voting.
	www.brainyencyclopedia.com /encyclopedia/s/sa/salzburg.html (225 words)

	classical music - andante - preview - salzburg festival
		Introduction to the Salzburg Festival -Salzburg Festival on the Selenophone
		There were no music performances at the 1923 festival, when the first official ISCM festival was held in Salzburg, and the entire 1924 festival was cancelled because of the general economic crisis.
		The founding and early history of the Salzburg Festival has increasingly become a fashionable topic in cultural history; in one compelling view it is seen as a search for Austrian identity after the fall of the Habsburg monarchy, and as a conservative reaction against modernism (Steinberg, 1990).
	www.andante.com /profiles/salzburg/salzburgfestival.cfm (947 words)

	Salzburg Festival -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		In 1927 the (additional info and facts about Festspielhaus) Festspielhaus, an (Theater where opera is performed) opera house, opened; the former riding academy was also converted into a theater.
		Musical repertory concentrated on Mozart and Strauss, but other works, such as (Italian operatic composer (1813-1901)) Verdi's (A dissolute character in Shakespeare's plays) Falstaff and (The music of Beethoven) Beethoven's (additional info and facts about Fidelio) Fidelio were also performed.
		Closed during (A war between the Allies (Australia, Belgium, Bolivia, Brazil, Canada, China, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Czechoslovakia, Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Ethiopia, France, Greece, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, India, Iran, Iraq, Luxembourg, Mexico, Netherl) World War II, the Salzburg Festival reopened in 1946.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/s/sa/salzburg_festival.htm (146 words)

	Salzburg Festival
		annual festival of music and drama held in Salzburg, Austria, for five weeks starting in late July.
		After World War I several leading German-speaking cultural figures—including Hermann Bahr, Richard Strauss, Max Reinhardt, and Hugo von Hofmannsthal—developed the idea of an annual summer cultural festival to be held in Salzburg.
		Since 1992 the festival has been led by the Belgian Gérard Mortier who, somewhat controversially, has performed many contemporary works and encouraged modern interpretations of the classics.
	www.question.com /link/SalzFest.html (489 words)

	Tamagawa School K-12, University \| History of Tamagawa
		Tamagawa Gakuen celebrates its 50th anniversary,with a ceremony held at the Nippon Budokan in Japan.
		Tamagawa University's String Instruments Group performs at the Salzburg Music Festival.
		Tamagawa Gakuen celebrates its 60th anniversary with a musical ceremony held at the Nippon Budokan in Tokyo.
	www.tamagawa.jp /en/introduction/history/history.html (722 words)

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