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For the first time in its 81 editions, the
news will not be on the podium or on the lecterns
, not in the hand program, but in the seats of the
Musikverein Golden Room
, which on January 1 will celebrate its
traditional New Year's Concert
no audience.
"We have made every effort not to cancel it," Daniel Froschauer, president of the Vienna Philharmonic, told a telematic press conference about the strange and unprecedented
conditions in which the concert
of classical music will
be held
with the greatest media coverage of the planet: an average of
50 million viewers
from almost a hundred countries.
"If in these difficult times there were no New Year's Concert, what kind of message would we be sending to the world?" Reflected Froschauer in an interview with Die Presse.
Never before had the Vienna Philharmonic received the year behind closed doors, but given the increase in infections from the second wave of coronavirus in Europe, the pandemic has ended up
imposing its own protocol
in the first symphonic marathon of the year, where the rigor of etiquette it will be replaced by the
bonancible
hashtag
#MyNewYearsConcert
in order to
attract
as many viewers as possible.
In addition, the Austrian Government has launched an interactive platform in collaboration with the company Poet Audio, manufacturer of wireless sound systems based in Graz,
so that the applause that the public
dedicates to the musicians from their homes are
broadcast inside of the room
.
"The biggest challenge we faced was the silence between the works," acknowledged Froschauer.
"The concert has a dramatic sense in which the
audience plays a
fundamental
role
."
Another option that was considered with those in charge of the ORF, the Austrian public television that distributes the signal, was the uninterrupted interpretation of
all the pieces of the program
, an always festive, although nostalgic, assortment of the vast catalog of the family Strauss and his contemporaries.
"This year the most important thing is that the concert manages to
spread hope for the future,
" said Froschauer.
"That will be our gift to people around the world."
Mynewyearsconcert.com platform
To help the cause, and donate applause and ovations for the performances, music lovers and occasional fans of polkas and waltzes will be able to register on the
mynewyearsconcert.com platform
and pay their particular tribute to the musicians of the orchestra.
"Thanks to this original acoustic contribution we will be able to silence the noise of a world nightmare", they say from the organization.
For the rest, the Golden Room will once again be adorned, as tradition dictates, with
about 30,000 flowers
brought from all over the country (originally imported from the Italian city of San Remo).
The usual
musical interlude with two ballet numbers
, which last year was directed by the Spaniard José Carlos Martínez, will
also be broadcast
.
In these uncertain times, the concert program will bet on insurance: a total of ten
works by the Strauss family
, including the
Blue Danube
and the symphonic climax of the
Radetzky March
.
It will be the sixth time that the
Neapolitan maestro Riccardo Muti will
lead the Viennese hosts from the podium during the New Year's Concert.
"I have had a lot of time to study the nuances of each of these scores," he anticipated a few months ago to this newspaper.
"Although it has been a very tough year,
I am convinced that 2021 will bring happiness
."
Word of a veteran, who
will turn 80
in May
.
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