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On the arts and soccer
By Carl Hoover
| Monday, June 30, 2008, 04:28 PM
I missed the opening ceremonies of Sunday’s European soccer championship in Vienna, and honestly doubt this made it on American television, but the baritone singing the German national anthem was Eddie Gauntt, a Clifton native and 1979 Baylor grad.
Talk about globalization …
As for those of you who feel football always dominates the arts in Texas, you’re thinking too parochially. The New York Times reported last week that the celebrated Vienna State Opera, whose productions usually sell out, had to cancel one performance of “La forza del destino” because the European soccer championship (and the fear of game rowdies) had cut deeply into the opera’s audience. Attendance at the city’s Kunsthistorisches Museum was down 60 percent and the Burgtheater, which stages Shakespeare and Goethe, simply rented itself out for the month as a giant sports bar to Austria Telecom.
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