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The Red Bull Arena, known during and before the Euro 2008 football championship as the EM Stadion  Wals-Siezenheim , is a football stadium in... Wals-Siezenheim, a municipality in the suburb of Salzburg, Austria. It was officially opened in March 2003 and is the home ground of Red Bull Salzburg. Previously, the club played at Stadion Lehen. Its current seating capacity is 31,000. The stadium's previous capacity was 18,200, but was recently expanded to over 30,000 so that it was able to accommodate the 2008 European Football Championships. The "EM Stadion Wals-Siezenheim" was the only stadium in the Austrian Bundesliga which uses artificial turf. Polytan's FIFA 2-Star Recommended 40mm surface Ligaturf with a 25mm elastic layer was installed in 2005. Since Summer 2010 natural Lawn is used.
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Eisarena Salzburg is an indoor sports arena, located in Salzburg, Austria. The arena was built in 1960 and has a capacity of 3,600 people. It is... currently the home arena for the EC Red Bull Salzburg ice hockey team of the Austrian Hockey League, EC Red Bull Salzburg II of the Nationalliga, EC Oilers Salzburg of the Oberliga and the Ravens Salzburg of the Dameneishockey Bundesliga.
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Joseph Mohr, sometimes spelt Josef was an Austrian Roman Catholic priest and composer, who wrote the words to the Christmas carol "Silent Night".... Josef Franz Mohr was born in Salzburg on December 11, 1792, to an unmarried embroiderer, Anna Schoiberin, and a mercenary soldier, Franz Mohr who deserted the army and Joseph's mother before the birth. As his musical talent was not recognized, he found a sponsor to set him upon the path to higher education. As an illegitimate child he needed the Pope's special permission to study for the priesthood and was ordained a priest in 1815. Rev. Mohr was sent to a pilgrim church in the remote Alpine village of Mariapfarr, where in 1816 he wrote a six-stanza poem that was to become the world's most popular carol. Mohr was moved to Oberndorf in 1817 to stay there for two years. When Franz Gruber agreed to compose a melody and guitar arrangement for the poem to be sung at midnight mass on December 24, 1818, 'Silent Night' was born. Within a few short years, arrangements of the carol appeared in churches in the Salzburg Diocese and folk singers from the Ziller Valley were taking the song on tours around Europe.
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Rudi Wilfer is an Austrian pianist and composer whose career as a jazz musician began in 1959. He is a jazz pianist and teacher at the conservatory... in Vienna. Played with Uzzi Förster Band, Fatty George Band, Slide Hampton, Leo Wright & Carmell Jones Quartet, Oliver Nelson Berlin Dream Band, Erich Kleinschuster Sextett, Charly Antolini Band, Friedrich Gulda, Bud Freeman, Lee Harper, Karl Ratzer, Joe Zawinul and partners in Rudi Wilfer Trio His "St. Michaeler Messe" was performed at the 1st Salzburger Jazz-Herbst in 1996 in the Salzburg Cathedral. In 2001, Wilfer wrote his "Lungauer Blues Messe", which had its premiere at the same place, also in the course of the Salzburger Jazz-Herbst.
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Angelika Kirchschlager is an Austrian mezzo-soprano opera and lieder singer. Kirchschlager began her musical training at the Mozarteum in Salzburg,... where she studied percussion and piano. In 1984, she went to the Vienna Music Academy, where she studied with Gerhard Kahry and Walter Berry. Her first engagements were at the Wiener Kammeroper and the Graz Opera House. Kirchschlager won third prize in the International Hans Gabor Belvedere Singing Competition in 1991. Her stage debut was in Graz in 1993 as Octavian . In 1993, she became a member of the Vienna State Opera, and made her debut there as Cherubino . In 2002, Kirchschlager sang the role of Sophie in the world première of Nicholas Maw's opera Sophie's Choice at the Royal Opera House in London, and the American premiere of the revised version of the opera at the Washington Opera. She is a regular guest of the annual Lieder festival Schubertiade Schwarzenberg in Vorarlberg, Austria. Her regular collaborators include Helmut Deutsch and Simon Keenlyside. Kirchschlager resides in Vienna. She has a son, Felix, from her marriage to the baritone Hans Peter Kammerer.
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Bill Kirchenbauer is an American actor and stand-up comic who has appeared in television shows and films since the 1970s. He is best known for his... recurring role as Coach Graham Lubbock on the series Growing Pains and in the spin-off series Just the Ten of Us . Kirchenbauer was born in Salzburg, Austria, the son of Hester Elaine and Alfred Ellsworth Kirchenbauer, who served in the U.S. army. He has had recurring roles on Fernwood 2 Night and America 2-Night as comedian Tony Rolletti; on Mork & Mindy as the obnoxious womanizer, T.N.T.; and on Clueless as Coach Bullock. He was a semi-regular panelist on the revival of Match Game in 1990. He plays Captain Glucose in the popular The Diabetes Duo: Captain Glucose and Meter Boy.
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Sebastian Fuchsberger is an Austrian musician. He's a trombonist, tenor and yodeller, and a founding member of the Austrian jazz-folk band Global... Kryner. Originally from a musical family from Koppl near Salzburg, Fuchsberger studied the trombone from 1988 to 1996 at the Mozarteum in Salzburg and attended courses by Branimir Slokar. From 1996-97 he was engaged in the stage orchestra of the Vienna State Opera. As a trombonist, he has performed in concert with the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, the Vienna Symphony Orchestra, the St. Petersburger Philharmonic Orchestra, the Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Vienna Volksoper, the Vienna Chamber Orchestra, the Wiener Klangforum, the Camerata Academia Salzburg, Taschenoper Wien, the Janus Ensemble, Mund.Art, the Burgtheater, and bands such as the Vienna Art Orchestra, Max Nagel and the Alegre Correa Group. From 1997 to 2002 he studied singing.
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Herbert von Karajan was an Austrian orchestra and opera conductor. To the wider world he was perhaps most famously associated with the Berlin... Philharmonic, of which he was principal conductor for 35 years. Although his work was not universally admired, he is generally considered to have been one of the greatest conductors of all time, and he was a dominant figure in European classical music from the 1960s until his death. Part of the reason for this was the large number of recordings he made and their prominence during his lifetime. By one estimate he was the top-selling classical music recording artist of all time, having sold an estimated 200 million records. The Karajans were of Greek Macedonian or Aromanian ancestry. His great-great-grandfather, Geòrgios Johannes Karajànnis, was born in Kozani, an Aromanian town in the Ottoman province of Rumelia , leaving for Vienna in 1767, and eventually Chemnitz, Saxony.
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