The New Year Concert

While I visited the Hundertwasser Museum in Vienna, Antonio went to the “Haus der Musik”. This home of Music is also the home of the Wiener Philarmoniker. Remember all the New Years Concerts? Yes, he brought me a DVD of the New Year concert of 2010. The program promises us “bonbons”, “wine, women and song” and “champagne”. So coming home we sit down comfortably in front of our TV with a glass of wine, prepared for the concert. 

The Opera building is magnificent with a lot of gold. The Orchesta is large and mainly male. The music is dancing along. All the Strausses are present. Polka, Walzer, Tanz and Scherz ending in Gallop. At the same time we are a bit distracted by the old conductor. Obviously used to being a leader, the dominant figure. He is way into the eighties and seems extremely happy with himself, making jokes. (I am probably being unfair.) The program tells all about the music, but nothing about him. After the bonbons, the champagne and a lot of cuckoos and other whisteling birds we listen to a piece of Offenbach; Rhine Fairies. It makes me think of beija flors (kiss the flowers = humming birds) flying around in the floresta (forest). I cannot stop myself, with one Quadrille and some Morgenblätter to go, I fly away into the forest ……