48 Traveling with a Musical Theme

Travel with Rick Steves

Rick Steves

Rick Steves, Public Radio, 721132, Europe, Society & Culture, Places & Travel, Npr, Travel

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🗓️ 16 April 2006

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

2006 is being celebrated as Mozart's 250th birthday, reminding us that your next destination's music scene can provide a theme (pun intended) for your trip. On this week's Travel with Rick Steves, our guest is Margaret Hemmen, a professional musician who leads music-oriented tours through Europe. Whether your next trip includes visits to concert halls, tossing coins at street musicians, or shopping for that special hand-crafted instrument... this show will have you tapping your toes in anticipation. For more information on Travel with Rick Steves - including episode descriptions, program archives and related details - visit www.ricksteves.com.

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Rick Steeves. In Europe, music lovers find it's easy to splice their favorite
0:06.8	composer into their travels. And since Austria is celebrating Mozart's 250th birthday
0:12.2	this year.
0:13.0	Vienna and Salzburg are just bursting with celebrations, performances, and festivals.
0:18.0	Music is the universal language, and today on Travel with Rick Steves
0:23.0	we'll get a lesson from someone who's fluent.
0:25.0	Margaret Hemman, a professional musician who also leads music oriented tourist
0:29.0	to Europe will tell us about her favorite musical sightseeing
0:31.0	and take your calls.
0:32.0	Whether you want to tend an opera at Laskal and about her favorite musical sightseeing and take your calls.
0:33.1	Whether you want to attend an opera at Laskala and Milan,
0:35.9	shop for a guitar made by a master craftsman in Spain,
0:39.0	or simply enjoy a street performance
0:40.7	in the medieval quarter of Prague.
0:42.3	We've got enough music to fill your next
0:44.0	vacation. Tune up your travel dreams and warm up your wanderlust. We're enjoying the music of Europe
0:49.3	next as we travel with Rick Steeves.
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1:14.0	Hi, I'm Rick Steve's.
1:20.0	Some of my favorite European experiences have been musical. Whether enjoying
1:25.4	some furious fiddling in an Irish pub, a Welshman's choir, or riveting flamenco in
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