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This year’s New Year’s Concert includes works by Carl Michael Ziehrer and Franz von ���ܱ��é — and Josef Hellmesberger Jr., who in addition to playing and teaching violin served as the Philharmonic chairman and composed ballets.

“Wegen essen da wird ich erst mal des curry mit kartoffeln haben und dann bologna und dann gefuellte und dann kartoffeln suppe,” he wrote at one point: “For food I want to have curry with potato then bologna and potato soup.”

“Turn that thing off!” growled a very perturbed man somewhere front orchestra left — a highly unexpected addition to the opening horn solo of Franz von ���ܱ��é’s 1865 overture to “Die schöne Galathée.”

Von ���ܱ��é’s opera is based on a slightly twisted vision of the Pygmalion myth by Kohl von Kohlenegg.

Even with these new techniques, which Suppe together calls “slab tectonics,” the mantle’s memory of ocean slabs only stretches back 250 million years—the time it takes for one to fall to the bottom of the mantle and be fully recycled.