January 1st New Year's Day Concert

 

My husband has a picture of a clarinet. He plays the clarinet. On his screen we watched the New Year's Day concert. The handy subtitles reminded up of the programme and which piece of music was playing. Photo by Angela Lansbury. Copyright.

New Year Resolutions

Set timers so that I don't miss or arrive late for events. We did miss the New Year's Day concert but were able to catch up with it later.

New Year's Day concert in Vienna

10.15 am on BBC2.

The concert has taken place for around 80 years with high prices for the in demand seats, but worldwide, we can watch the concert on the day, or later.

Here are the highlights. 

Decor

The concert  hall is viewed on TV from above the heads of the audience at all angles including close ups of the superb ceiling where gilt frames the blue backed pictures of human beings. Down below are the golden statues, and bronze pillars. 

Ten multiple-glass drop candelabra hang over the audience. Ten. I counted them, twice, three times - to be sure.

Flowers

The flowers from local parks have been cultivated to bloom in December, I presume in greenhouses, although I had roses in the garden in England in early December before the snow in mid-December.

In the second half you see the Vienna Boy's Choir. In 2023, for the first time, the boys were joined by girls.

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