At the 2008 Thanksgiving harvest festival on Vienna’s Heldenplatz, Austrian Agriculture Minister Josef Pröll gratefully took up the baton to conduct a well-known brass band piece. The band members, for their part, barely looked up from their sheet music. Sleeves rolled up, the minister approached his task with enthusiasm. As quickly as it had begun, his appearance ended again just a few bars later. Lead candidate Wilhelm Molterer then went on to mingle with the crowd.
Bandmaster of Agriculture
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At the 2008 Thanksgiving harvest festival on Vienna’s Heldenplatz, Austrian Agriculture Minister Josef Pröll gratefully took up the baton to conduct a well-known brass band piece. The band members, for their part, barely looked up from their sheet music. Sleeves rolled up, the minister approached his task with enthusiasm. As quickly as it had begun,…