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In 2002, she began working on A Sound Map of the Danube River, which gathered sounds recorded from a variety of sites on the surface of, within, and around the river. Lockwood's work has been presented at festivals around the world.
The Danube River Basin is divided into three main parts, separated by "gates" where the river is forced to cut through mountainous sections: [24] Upper Basin, from the headwaters to the Devín Gate. Middle Basin, usually called the Pannonian basin or Carpathian Basin, between the Devín Gate and the Iron Gates.
The Breg is the longest and biggest headstream of the river Danube.It flows through the southeast part of the Middle Black Forest and the lowlands of the Baar region.. The Breg rises at a height of 1,078 m above sea level (NN), six kilometres northwest of Furtwangen.
The Danube river, emanating from the Abnoba mountains, was considered to be a river or spring goddess. In contrast to the more mythical role, the hydrological significance of the source of the Danube is notably small; this is because a significant portion of the Danube's headwater is channelled into the Rhine , both above and below Tuttlingen ...
Stories of the Danube is a symphony based on the river Danube by Joe Zawinul, which was commissioned by the Brucknerhaus in Linz.It was first performed as part of the Linzer Klangwolke (a large-scale open-air broadcast event), for the opening of the 1993 Bruckner Festival in Linz, on September 12.
The "Beautiful Blue Danube" was first written as a song for a carnival choir (for bass and tenor), with rather satirical lyrics (Austria having just lost a war with Prussia). [1] The original title was also referring to a poem about the Danube in the poet Karl Isidor Beck's hometown, Baja in Hungary, and not in Vienna.
This isn't the first time ships have cropped up in the River Danube, Europe's second-longest river at 1,770 miles. Perennial droughts and heat waves have led to drastic drops in water levels each ...
Melk Abbey. The Wachau (German pronunciation: ⓘ) is an Austrian valley with a picturesque landscape formed by the Danube river. It is one of the most prominent tourist destinations of Lower Austria, located midway between the towns of Melk and Krems that also attracts "connoisseurs and epicureans" for its high-quality wines. [1]