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“SILKS & SATIN, IN THE CITY OF MUSIC” by Des Kelly      Imagine a most beautiful woman, dressed in silks & Satin, in Vienna, the “City of Music”, which was quite possibly, exactly what Carl Michael Ziehrer was doing, as he composed this glorious piece of music in a waltz entitled “The Samt & Seide Walzer”.       I have never been there, but I have always envisaged Vienna to be a picturesque City in Austria, associated with wonderful music from the pens of Composers such as Strauss and Ziehrer, among dozens of other superb exponents of light classical music. I have to point out to our good readers of eLanka, with fulltime members now numbering over twenty thousand, the fact that my tastes in music are 100% catholic. I always take  “the middle road”, cannot stand the heavy “Classical, Jazz, Rock, Blues, & what is termed “modern-Country”. My ...