Let there be joy and celebration, let jubilation rain!
The accursed year 2007 has spent its last fetid breath. I happily signed the death certificate and consigned its rotting carcass to the incinerators of memory.
To celebrate the coming of each New Year and of new hopes and beginnings along with it I always watch the broadcast of the Neujahrskonzert, live from the Großer Saal of the Wien Musikverein.
No matter how late (or how early in the morning...) I sleep after New Year's Eve partying, I always wake up on time to hear the Music of the Strauß family played by one of the World's finest orchestras.
You may object and say that the music is not exactly cutting - edge scholarly. It does not carry the weight of Beethoven, the flashing talent of Mozart or the thunder of Tchaikovsky.
It is however like the jolly sparkling of champagne in a proper flute glass. It IS the embodiment of New Year's Day and all it stands for.
This year's concert will be conducted by Georges Prêtre,
so tune in to the Österreichischer Rundfunk (ORF!!!), toast the maestro with flutes of champagne, wish the very best for him and all musicians and artists for this year and enjoy!
For my part, I would like to extend, with myself interposed, the wish:
Die Wiener Philharmoniker, der Dirigent (σαφώς) und Ich ( τρομάρα μου!) möchten wünschen Ihnen und Ihren Familien:
PROSIT NEUJAHR!!!
(Αρχίζει..με το καλό...!)
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