On this occasion, the Concert was under the baton of the youngest teacher in leading this orchestra, the venezuelan Gustavo Dudamel.
"A real honour to be directing the Concerts of the New Year", tweeted Dudamel prior to the event,, which aired live in more than 90 countries. The Neujahrskonzert –title of the concert– took place in the Great Hall of the famous Musikverein in Vienna, and was dedicated to the family of the composer of the NINETEENTH century Strauss.
The program for this 2017 was composed of waltzes, polkas and marches, to end with the legendary March Radetzky, of the first Johann Strauss. At the end you could hear the traditional waltz blue Danube, his son and namesake, Johann Strauss.
Every edition of this concert known variants, and, in addition to Strauss, this year included pieces of other authors, such as The merry wives of Windsor, set to music by Otto Nicolai.
The cheerful touch gave a group of young ballet dancers, who traveled through the golden hallway and evolved in the middle of the audience.
at The end of the show, 15 pieces, which lasted for two and a half hours, a Dudamel visibly touched as he received a standing ovation from the audience standing, including the Foreign minister of austria, Sebastian Kurz, who was among the many personalities present.
"Directing the blue Danube means that now I can die in peace", had told the young teacher on Thursday in a press conference in Vienna.
Andreas Großbauer, president of the orchestra of vienna and the first violin, said, "you still hear in your ear the cry" of happiness Dudamel when he called to ask if I wanted to direct this protest was organized in the hall of the Musikverein.
In the 80′s, after 25 years of the reign of austrian Willi Boskovsky and six seasons of its successor, the american Lorin Maazel, who passed away in 2014, came to the decision to have a director other than for each one of the presentations a year.
AFP
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