Vienna Philharmonic - Summer Night Concert 2019 (Trailer)

The Summer Night Concert 2019 of the Vienna Philharmonic, conducted by Gustavo Dudamel & pianist Yuja Wang as a soloist, at the Schönbrunn baroque gardens (a UNESCO World Cultural Heritage Site) in Vienna, Austria.

The Summer Night Concert was performed this year on June 20th, 2019. It is an annual open-air event, which has been held since 2008. The previous series was the “Concert for Europe”, which took place from 2004 until 2007. The park of Schönbrunn Palace in Vienna/Austria is the magical setting for the concert, which is free of charge for all residents and visitors of the city. The illustrious conductors who have previously led the orchestra at this event are Georges Prêtre, Daniel Barenboim, Franz Welser-Möst, Valery Gergiev, Lorin Maazel, Christoph Eschenbach, Zubin Mehta, and Semyon Bychkov.

Thanks to its UNESCO World Heritage setting in the Baroque park of Schönbrunn with the palace as a backdrop, the Summer Night Concert adds great visual charm to its superb musical quality. This event is classical music at its very best – made accessible to a broad public. Millions of viewers and listeners in more than 80 countries can follow the concert online, on TV and radio, and up to 100,000 Viennese and their guests assembled on the Great Parterre at the heart of Schönbrunn Park for the event.

Central to the programme of the Vienna Philharmonic’s 2019 Summer Night Concert was a musical history of the United States of America: the works that were heard this year were composed in or for the USA, while also constituting links with the Viennese musical tradition.

Album release: 5.07.2019

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[adamsmith]

I am gonna tell my kids this was Lollapalooza

[georgescancan]

The people and classical music??!!
>>>A Violinist in the Metro<<< by David Emery Updated October 07, 2017
The following viral story, A Violinist in the Metro, describes what happened when acclaimed classical violinist Joshua Bell appeared incognito on a subway platform in Washington, D.C. one cold winter morning and played his heart out for tips. The viral text has been circulating since December 2008 and is a true story. Read the following for the story, an analysis of the text, and to see how people reacted to Bell's experiment.
The Story, A Violinist in the Metro

A man sat at a metro station in Washington D.C and started to play the violin; it was a cold January morning. He played six Bach pieces for about 45 minutes. During that time, since it was rush hour, it was calculated that thousands of people went through the station, most of them on their way to work.

Three minutes went by and a middle aged man noticed there was musician playing. He slowed his pace and stopped for a few seconds and then hurried up to meet his schedule.

A minute later, the violinist received his first dollar tip: a woman threw the money in the till and, without stopping, continued to walk.

A few minutes later, someone leaned against the wall to listen to him, but the man looked at his watch and started to walk again. Clearly, he was late for work.

The one who paid the most attention was a three-year-old boy. His mother tagged him along, hurried, but the kid stopped to look at the violinist. Finally, the mother pushed hard and the child continued to walk, turning his head all the time. This action was repeated by several other children. All the parents, without exception, forced them to move on.

In the 45 minutes the musician played, only six people stopped and stayed for a while. About 20 gave him money, but continued to walk their normal pace. He collected $32. When he finished playing and silence took over, no one noticed it. No one applauded, nor was there any recognition.

No one knew this, but the violinist was Joshua Bell, one of the best musicians in the world. He played one of the most intricate pieces ever written with a violin worth 3.5 million dollars.

Two days before his playing in the subway, Joshua Bell sold out at a theater in Boston and the seats averaged $100 each.

This is a real story. Joshua Bell playing incognito in the metro station was organized by the Washington Post as part of an social experiment about perception, taste, and the priorities of people.

The outlines were, in a commonplace environment at an inappropriate hour:

Do we perceive beauty?
Do we stop to appreciate it?
Do we recognize the talent in an unexpected context?

One of the possible conclusions from this experience could be that if we do not have a moment to stop and listen to one of the best musicians in the world playing the best music ever written, how many other things are we missing?

Analysis of the Story

This is a true story. For 45 minutes, on the morning of Jan. 12, 2007, concert violinist Joshua Bell stood incognito on a Washington, D.C. subway platform and performed classical music for passersby. Video and audio of the performance are available on the Washington Post website.

"No one knew it, " explained Washington Post reporter Gene Weingarten several months after the event, "but the fiddler standing against a bare wall outside the Metro in an indoor arcade at the top of the escalators was one of the finest classical musicians in the world, playing some of the most elegant music ever written on one of the most valuable violins ever made." Weingarten came up with the experiment to see how ordinary people would react.
How People Reacted

For the most part, people did not react at all. More than a thousand people entered the Metro station as Bell worked his way through a set list of classical masterpieces, but only a few stopped to listen. Some dropped money in his open violin case, for a total of about $27, but most never even stopped to look, Weingarten wrote.

The text above, penned by an unidentified author and circulated via blogs and email, poses a philosophical question: If we do not have a moment to stop and listen to one of the best musicians in the world playing the best music ever written, how many other things are we missing? This question is fair to ask.

The demands and distractions of our fast-paced workaday world can indeed stand in the way of appreciating truth and beauty and other contemplative delights when we encounter them.

However, it's equally fair to point out that there is an appropriate time and place for everything, including classical music. One might consider if such an experiment was really necessary to determine that a busy subway platform during rush hour might not be conducive to an appreciation of the sublime.

[mariodisarli]

New York CLASSICAL REVIEW
Too much Yuja and not enough Schumann in Wang’s subbing with Philharmonic
Thu Mar 28, 2019 at 1:14 pm
By David Wright

[jenkins]

I saw it its cheers huh did u know hera is a form of Justin she no...in my esp neighbors she is stealthed as the glorious Kathy butler he is in love