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{SPEAKER name="Jeanne Porterfield"}
When we arrived there, the wonderful summer day combined with the gaiety of the music, had captured everyone's fancy! [[Laughter]] Especially, this tiny budding conductor.[[Laughter]]

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{SPEAKER name="Jeanne Porterfield"}
The pastry tray, a Viennese specialty, was brought to us laden with sachertorte, [[??]] mit Schlagsahne [[??]] and cakes with whipped cream. Well, if any of you are diet-conscious, this is the time to close your eyes!

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{SPEAKER name="Jeanne Porterfield"}
I didn't, and have been on a diet ever since.
In the meantime while Willie waited for us, he gave his horses their form of pastry too. Only wouldn't you say it's served in a slightly different manner?

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{SPEAKER name="Jeanne Porterfield"}
And no pastry's complete without another Viennese specialty: their coffee, mit Schlagsahne [[??]], of course. Vienna introduced coffee to the Western world, having gotten it from the Turks, during one of their sieges on the city, and the popular coffee houses we find everywhere originated here too.

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{SPEAKER name="Jeanne Porterfield"}
Well, if our horses keep this up much longer they may have to go on a diet too, as does everyone who goes to Vienna.

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{SPEAKER name="Jeanne Porterfield"}
And so, the band [[??]] plays on and so does the little conductor! Notice here his feelings for the waltz; he just might be a future Strauss.

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{SPEAKER name="Jeanne Porterfield"}
We were on our way again to see the statues of the great composers who lived in Vienna: Mozart, a unique, prolific composer when he died a pauper in Vienna. Haydn, who laid the foundation for the modern symphony, and Brahms, the godfather of many modern composers. The mighty Beethoven. Schubert, the "Prince of Songs," writing over 600. Bruckner [[??]] the great organist, famed for his symphonies, and Vienna isn't complete without Johann Strauss, who set the entire world "a-waltzing"

Transcription Notes:
Speaker unknown (It is Jeanne Porterfield), but narrator is the same person. I am also not sure of German/Viennese spellings.