Compasses waltz, champagne, confetti and applause were cited today in the Musikverein in Vienna to give an elegant musical start in 2015 with the 75th New Year’s Concert of the Vienna Philharmonic .
The Golden Hall tucked Zubin Mehta (Bombay, 1936) with a warm ovation when the Indian master rose for the fifth time in his life the Viennese stage and began with the traditional gesture excited recital.
He tore the most famous and world concert with compasses dominated program, as tradition dictates, by the waltzes of Strauss, and would have her brooch with popular Radetzky March The soundtrack of the start of the year for excellence.
The humor, winks to the public and a relaxed atmosphere have been constant at a concert in which there was a shower of confetti at the end of the Polka of the Explosions, and philharmonic have provided with glasses of champagne at the end of another piece, Gallop Champagne, known as the Danish Strauss, Hans Christian Lumbye
Mehta is not a newcomer in this reputed post.: It is the fourth director who most times has led to the Vienna Philharmonic at the start of the year, in a city that knows it was here where he trained and also where debuted as a director.
In tribute to the Teacher close relationship with the city, the orchestra dedicated the first part of the repertoire, which began with the overture entitled “Ein Morgen, ein Mittag, ein Abend in Wien” (One morning, noon, night in Vienna) of composer Austrian operettas Franz von Suppe.
One of the last written waltzes by Johann Strauss, “Tales of the East” was the second part of the morning, which was followed by vibrant compositions of Joseph brothers and Eduard Strauss.
Spare energetic as the “Electromagnetic Polka” and “Mit Dampf” (Furious) served in part a tribute to the 200th anniversary of the Technical University, cradle of engineers Austrian since the time of Strauss, and one of the themes of this year by the University of Vienna and the Ring, Circular most famous avenue of the city.
For the anecdotes will quote certain philharmonic peculiar instruments that have brought out this year as a rattle or a small water-filled whistle to imitate the chirping of birds.
The ballet has been incorporated with the “Polka students” that the State Ballet has performed at the headquarters of the University of Vienna, one inspired by the popular academic hymn “Gaudeamus Igitur” piece.
And there is no New Year Concert and Marching Blue Danube Radeztky, pieces that always play unscheduled and shaped tip before an enthusiastic audience in applause
At this point, another tradition that no director dares to violate nor Mehta. false start Danube Blue accomplices interrupted by applause, then the director turns, pretend anger and want a íFeliz Year! with a smile to the room before returning to the world’s most famous waltz.
The highlight was, inevitably, the Radetzky March, which Mehta began with a slight signal baton from one corner of stage.
The march is the last piece of the appointment always accompanied by palms public, led by the director, who for the occasion turns his back to the orchestra and directed his baton to the present.
Mehta has put order in the palms areas of the room. first galleries to incorporate the patio in the most intense parts with passionate gestures
The Golden Hall hosted 700 spectators , just a tiny part of applicants each year a prize entries that takes place during the month of January, nearly a year before each gala.
The rest of the fans to this event were able to follow the concert on television, because the signal was sent to more than 90 countries, including for the first time Bahamas.
The Austrian stopped performing some familiar faces in the room, as the director’s wife Nancy Kobak, Polish tenor Piotr Beczała, or Austrian President Heinz Fischer.
Also missing planes of the 30,000 flowers that decorated the room in orange and yellow colors, referring to the homeland director gift from the Italian city of San Remo.
By 2016, the director appointed by the orchestra is Latvian Mariss Jansons, who will go for the third time the most media lectern musical planet, an appointment where the Mehta himself or Daniel Barenboim signed superb performances.
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