Although Vienna is best known for the classical music of composers like Mozart and Strauss, there is music everywhere at Christmas time, from the carols of a brass ensemble at a Christmas market to the softer sounds of a Swedish choir celebrating Sankta Lucia.
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Mike Powell 
Beautiful… One can almost hear the sweet sound of music being played.
Oh wow, how wonderful this is. Although I wouldn’t want to be the girl with candles on her head.
It was indoors, so there wasn’t an issue with wind, but she had the lit candles on her head for about a half hour.
Lovely night time pictures.
Thanks. Many of the streets had their own special “theme” and I appreciated the fact that they were mostly simple, elegant repeated patters of white and gold (and red in one case) and not the garish, multi-colored displays that I see so often here in the United States.
Love seeing these special pictures Mike — Christmas celebrations in Europe are more traditional and meaningful, and with much less commercialism and mega hoopla than ours here … simple and elegant!
Simple and elegant–that’s more my style too. Some of the Christmas markets in Vienna are pretty commercialized, but other retain more of the simplicity that attracts me. Merry Christmas.