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Written By: Vivian Goodman on
June 17th, 2012
Vienna is bathed in sunshine as the members of the Cleveland Orchestra Youth Orchestra journey here by tour bus.
They are scheduled to arrive late this afternoon from Prague with a stop at the Zentralfriedhof, the Viennese cemetery where Schubert, Johann Strauss, Jr., Beethoven, and Brahms are buried.
This city is all about classical music. When I arrived at the airport I was amused to see the entire libretto and score of Franz Lehar’s The Merry Widow engraved on a wall.
The young musicians should be merry at this moment, coming off their triumph in Prague. The first concert of their first international tour was a smash hit with seven curtain calls.
