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Rick Steves' Europe. A symphonic journey [videorecording (DVD)].

Backdoor Productions, c2013.

DVD 784.2 S848e Perf

Cascade Symphony Orchestra -- Performances.

Music -- Europe.

Europe -- Songs and music.

Europe -- Description and travel.

Alternate title:

Europe. A symphonic journey [videorecording (DVD)]

[videorecording (DVD)].

1 videodiscs (57 min.) : digital sd. col. ; 12 cm. + 1 audio CD + 1 booklet.

Originally broadcast on PBS.

"Rousing favorites from Europe's greatest composers of the Romantic era on DVD and CD"--Container.

Closed-captioned.

Star spangled banner (USA) -- On the beautiful Blue Danube (Austria) -- Overture to Die Meistersinger (Germany) -- The Moldau (Czech Republic) -- Triumphal March from Aida (Italy) -- Pomp and Circumstance March No. 1 (England) -- "Morning" from Peer Gynt Suite No. 1, op. 46 (Norway) -- Marche Troyenne (France) -- "Ode to Joy" from Symphony No. 9 (European Union).

Backdoor Productions ; American Public Television and Oregon Public Broadcasting.

Host, Rick Steves ; Music performed by the Cascade Symphony Orchestra (directed by Michael Miropolsky).

Just as travel broadens one's perspectives, so can music. Rick Steves Europe: A Symphonic Journey is an hour-long concert and video special. Rick teams up with his "hometown" (Edmonds, WA) Cascade Symphony Orchestra on a musical tour that starts in the USA, then touches down in seven different European countries. The DVD: For each stop, Rick paints the cultural context of Nationalism and Romanticism in words, then the orchestra plays stirring 19th-century anthems - Strauss in Austria, Wagner in Germany, Smetana in the Czech Republic, Verdi in Italy, Elgar in England, Grieg in Norway, Berlioz in France - each accompanied by glorious video footage. While each piece celebrates a particular nationality, the finale, Beethoven's Ode to Joy (Europe's official national anthem), celebrates a continent whose motto is "united in diversity." The audio bonus includes full-length versions of songs performed on the DVD, plus an extra track: Edvard Grieg's Hall of the Mountain King.

Orchestral music.

Orchestral music, Arranged.

National music.

Classical/Opera/Choral.

Travelogues (Television programs)

Films for the hearing impaired.

Steves, Rick, 1955-

Miropolsky, Michael.

Cascade Symphony Orchestra.

Backdoor Productions.

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