Vienna

RAYMOND E. BAUER, age 89, of Vienna, VA on Saturday, September 13, 2003 at Inova Fairfax Hospital, beloved husband of the late C. Louise Bauer; loving father of Ted K. Bauer and Susan L. Wilkes; brother of Kelton Bauer and Mary Jane Skuhr. Also survived by three grandchildren. Friends may call at the Money & King Funeral Home, 171 W. Maple Avenue, Vienna, VA on Tuesday, September 16 from 3 to 5 and 7 to 9 p.m. Mass of Christian Burial will be celebrated on Wednesday, September 17 at 11 a.m. at St. Mark's Catholic Church, 9970 Vale Road, Vienna, VA. Interment private in Lorraine Park Cemetery, Baltimore, MD. The family suggest that memorials be made to The American Heart Assoc.

Just about any encounter with the famed Vienna Philharmonic renews one's musical value system. The orchestra's visit to the Kennedy Center Monday and Tuesday nights, presented by the Washington Performing Arts Society, offered a fascinating demonstration of style and strength. You could actually see it in the body language; none of that listless sawing away so common in the orchestral world. Making the experience doubly intriguing was the presence of Nikolaus Harnoncourt on the podium.

On February 24, 2003, MARION R., of Vienna, Maryland, mother of Sharon Danner and grandmother of Jason Danner. Graveside Service will be held Thursday, February 27, 2003, at 12:00 P.M. at Loudon Park Cemetery. Donations may be made to Vienna Methodist Church, P.O. Box 278, Vienna, MD. 21869. Arrangements by Zeller Funeral Home in East New Market.

Baltimore-born director / choreographer Martha Clarke's Vienna: Lusthaus (revisited) opens a one-week run at Washington's Kennedy Center on Tuesday. Winner of a 1986 Obie Award, the show is set in early 20th century Vienna and uses music (by Richard Peaslee), text (by Charles L. Mee), dance and imagery (suggested by the work of Viennese painters Egon Schiele and Gustav Klimt) to depict a society on the verge of dissolution. Seen in its original incarnation at the Kennedy Center in 1986, the work was an eerie, dream-like intermingling of sexuality and war, Freud and Hitler.

In Montgomery I-495 car accident kills man, 43, from Vienna, Va. CABIN JOHN -- A Vienna, Va., man died early yesterday after the car in which he was riding hit a tractor-trailer on Interstate 495 about a mile north of the American Legion Bridge, said Maryland State Police in Rockville. James Brackett, 43, was a passenger in a 1995 Acura driven by Elizabeth Brackett, 38, of Vienna, Va. Police said she lost control of the car about 1 a.m. after swerving to avoid an article of clothing in the road.

In Johnny Guitar (1954), part of a cycle of haywire "adult" westerns and this week's entry in the Saturday revival series at the Charles, Nicholas Ray, an unabashedly baroque director, tarts up a ranchers vs. outsiders saga with wild colors, a barreling pace and overt, hilarious sexual innuendoes. There may be other cowboy movies with Johnny Guitar's quantity of action, though none has as much going on just beneath the surface. It's probably the weirdest picture ever turned out by Republic Pictures, once Hollywood's leading Western factory.

The accounting firm Ernst & Young LLP continued its shopping spree yesterday, picking up three more offices of its scandal-troubled rival Arthur Andersen LLP, including the Baltimore operation. Ernst & Young will gain Andersen's audit and tax business in Baltimore and about 100 workers, including seven partners. The company has been acquiring offices around the country since Andersen became embroiled in the troubles of a client, Houston energy giant Enron Corp. The latest three acquisitions bring the number of offices bought by Ernst & Young to about a dozen.

VIENNA -- If there is such a thing as a sacred concert hall, the Musikverein is surely one of the most hallowed. Home to the Vienna Philharmonic, which continues to set a sublime standard in the orchestral world, the ornate hall itself radiates history, tradition, style. The Baltimore Symphony Orchestra honored those qualities in a pair of concerts that appeared to impress the discriminating Viennese public each night. No wonder. The ensemble, still on a high after its rock-solid performances in Paris and, especially, Berlin earlier in the week, once again offered impassioned, cohesive work under Yuri Temirkanov's dynamic direction.

At first glance, Vienna is still exactly what you'd expect. Baroque palaces and dancing Lipizzaner stallions. Sugary apple strudel and chocolatey Sacher tortes. Cobbled plazas filled with the strains of Mozart and Beethoven, Strauss and Brahms. But peer beyond the graceful 16th-century facade of the former Hapsburg riding stables at the newly opened Museums-Quartier, and you get a glimpse of something livelier, smarter and hipper in the Austrian capital. Roll over, Beethoven. Vienna, paean to all things proper and past, has gone giddy with a 21st-century blast of what's new. "This was a sleepy, backward, dull city, but in the last few years it's just exploded," says Hebe Jeffrey, a tour guide who has lived here for nearly two decades.

To paraphrase Noel Coward, it's strange how potent light music can be. Meyerhoff Symphony Hall was awash with this powerful stuff Wednesday for the annual Summer MusicFest presentation "A Night in Old Vienna." In its own way, a waltz by Johann Strauss Jr. is as perfect as a fugue by Bach, a minuet by Mozart. It's no wonder that Brahms, asked for an autograph, once jotted down the opening notes of "On the Beautiful Blue Danube," then wrote underneath: "Unfortunately, not by Johannes Brahms."