Vienna Philharmonic
Day 280: Time travel with YouTube—Mahler 4
Day 280 — Time travel with YouTube—Mahler 4
08-May-1972 (Montag–Mon.)
The real
Mahler 4 concert at night. We enter a time-vortex
through the magic of YouTube and see two videos from
this same concert—36 years ago. Yes, I was there.
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08-May-1972 (Montag–Mon.)
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Day 259: Mahler 5 televised
Day 259 — Mahler 5 televised
17-April-1972 (Montag–Mon.)
Today, we
get to see Bernstein conduct Mahler 5 for the
televised version of the concerts. I get to see
Bernstein from the organ balcony and fifth row
orchestra. I also meet Roland Berger, 1st horn of the
Vienna Philharmonic.
A great day.
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17-April-1972 (Montag–Mon.)
A great day.
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Day 258: Bernstein moves the Earth
Day 258 — Bernstein moves the Earth
16-April-1972 (Sonntag–Sun.)
Bernstein
literally moves the Earth today [read earthquake] in
a concert of Mahler’s Symphony
No. 5 in the
Musikverein. I snuck in for free and got Mr.
Bernstein’s autograph after the concert. Yes.
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16-April-1972 (Sonntag–Sun.)
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Day 255: Ein wunderbar Tage
Day 255 — Ein wunderbar Tage
13-April-1972 (Donnerstag–Thur.)
An
incredibly full day—horn lesson, piano practice,
electronic music composition and lecture, Leonard
Bernstein rehearsing the Vienna Philharmonic, another
Bach Heiler concert, and watching Buster Keaton
silent films. I’m still writing in German. The big
news—Leonard Bernstein is in town conducting the
Vienna Philharmonic in a Mahler series. This is big.
Photos from the 1972 Mahler Symphony
No. 5, concert
video, today.
Was this a full day or what? An incredible day.
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13-April-1972 (Donnerstag–Thur.)
Was this a full day or what? An incredible day.
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Day 202: Horn players love Richard Strauss
Day 202 — Horn players love Richard Strauss
20-February-1972 (Sonntag–Sun.)
It’s Sunday and I need to take a break. The Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra and the brass section wows me at night.
I discover a ton of online videos relating to Ein Heldenleben and the horn.
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20-February-1972 (Sonntag–Sun.)
It’s Sunday and I need to take a break. The Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra and the brass section wows me at night.
I discover a ton of online videos relating to Ein Heldenleben and the horn.
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Day 187: Great horn website
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Day 187 — Great horn website
05-February-1972 (Samstag–Sat.)
In 2009, I
present a wonderful website on the Horn and the
Viennese Horn by Prof. Hans Pizka.
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05-February-1972 (Samstag–Sat.)
Day 152: Glückliches Neues Jahr; New Year’s Day concert; off to St. Anton
Day 152 — Glückliches Neues Jahr; New Year’s Day
concert; off to St. Anton
01-January-1972 (Sat.)
What a
day! That’s how I end today’s reflections. I get into
standing room for the world-famous New Year’s Day
concert by the Vienna Philharmonic that features
waltzes and polkas by Johann Strauss’ I and II, dad
and son. What fun! Then, I head off on the train to
the Austrian Alps, stop in Innsbruck to give
Elisabeth a gift, and then head on to the
world-famous ski resort of St. Anton for a week of
skiing.
What a day! What a year!
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01-January-1972 (Sat.)
What a day! What a year!
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Day 054: Incredible Two's
Day 54 — Incredible Two's
25-September-1971 (Sat.)
What a
day!
Two incredible:
• concerts
• conductors
• orchestras
• symphonies
• horn sections
The day was mostly two amazing concerts by two incredible, internationally renowned orchestras—the Vienna Philharmonic, and the Chicago Symphony. From Dr. Karl Böhm to Sir Georg Solti, to Dvorak’s New World Symphony and Mahler’s Symphony No. 8, I was in heaven.
What a day!
What a city!
Vienna, the city of music.
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25-September-1971 (Sat.)
Two incredible:
• concerts
• conductors
• orchestras
• symphonies
• horn sections
The day was mostly two amazing concerts by two incredible, internationally renowned orchestras—the Vienna Philharmonic, and the Chicago Symphony. From Dr. Karl Böhm to Sir Georg Solti, to Dvorak’s New World Symphony and Mahler’s Symphony No. 8, I was in heaven.
What a day!
What a city!
Vienna, the city of music.
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Day 049: The Vienna State Opera (Wozzeck)
Day 49 — The Vienna State Opera (Wozzeck)
20-September-1971 (Mon.)
My first
visit to the Vienna State Opera. The building and
interior of the opera house, and the performance of
the opera Wozzeck,
all lead to a grand conclusion for the day.
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20-September-1971 (Mon.)
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