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Z zbranimi sredstvi želijo nabaviti najmanj 20 koles BMX. Dražili bodo rekvizite, ki so jih prinesli znani Slovenci.

There is nothing quite like a wow finish. Except perhaps two wow finishes.

The Blue Danube No other piece of music better illustrates the ‘flop to hit’ reversal than Johann Strauss II’s By the Beautiful Blue Danube. Here’s a waltz everybody knows, but the audience at its premiere did not entirely go with the flow. The work was intended to boost Viennese morale after Austria’s defeat at the hands of Prussia in the Seven Weeks’ War. And so it might have, had ‘humorous’ lyrics intended to make light of Austria’s problems not then been added. The first-night crowd hated them and the piece received just one encore making it, in Strauss’s terms, a dis...