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Good morning, and a very happy New Year from the Golden Hall

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of the Musikverein here in Vienna.

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This year, the Vienna Philharmonic welcome the youngest musician ever

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to lead the New Year's Day Concert, the Venezuelan maestro

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Gustavo Dudamel.

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Waltzes, polkas and quadrilles by three members of the Strauss

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family on the programme this year, along with pieces by Lehar,

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Waldteufel, Otto Nicolai and Franz von Suppe.

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The New Year's Day Concert performance by the Vienna

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Philharmonic is supported by Rolex.

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A record eight works this year that are receiving their first outing

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at a New Year's Day Concert

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and there's a new uniform for the players of the Vienna

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Philharmonic as well.

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But more about that later.

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Well, not Strauss to begin this year but Lehar -

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a stirring march from what was his first theatrical hit in this

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city - Wiener Frauen - the Women of Vienna -

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which premiered in 1902.

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Gustavo Dudamel makes his way onto the platform to join

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the Vienna Philharmonic and open this 2017 New Year's Day Concert.

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MUSIC: Nechledil-Marsch from Wiener Frauen by Franz Lehar

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The Nechledil March, by Franz Lehar.

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Skates on next.

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Given the fact there's a spectacular rink

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in front of the Rathaus, Vienna's City Hall

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it seems strange that Les Patineurs has never before featured

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in this concert.

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Music by Emil Waldteufel.

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MUSIC: Les Patineurs by Emile Waldteufel

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Reiner Honeck, leader of the Vienna Philharmonic,

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Gustavo Dudamel conducting the Skaters Waltz, Les Patineurs,

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by Emile Waldteufel.

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Waldteufel sometimes described as the Johann Strauss of Paris,

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he wrote 300 dances, half of them waltzes,

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appointed court pianist to Napoleon III in 1865 and was to conduct state

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balls in France for the remainder of the 19th century.

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Well, Johann Jr is the first member of the Strauss family

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we are going to hear this New Year's Day.

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He was conducting the summer season at Pavlovsk near St Petersburg

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when he wrote a polka, which he announced there was to be

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called Forget Me Not.

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In fact, he had planned another title for the piece,

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which he only announced when he got home, There's Only One Imperial

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City, Theres Only One Vienna.

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It includes a nod to the Imperial Austrian national anthem.

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MUSIC: 'S gibt nur a Kaiserstadt, 's gibt nur a Wien by Johann Strauss Jr

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A salute to this city, Vienna, in the Kaiserstadt

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polka by Johann Strauss.

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A nod to Maria Theresa too, the only female ruler

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of the Habsburg dominions, born 300 years ago this year.

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Strauss's younger brother Josef next - celebrating the season,

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the fast polka Winterlust.

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Winterlust by Josef Strauss, written for the Dianasaal here in Vienna,

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which boasted a ballroom, the floor of which could be

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turned into an ice rink.

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That polka premiered at a masked ball, complete

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with fake flurries of snow, described as the highlight

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of the 1862 carnival season.

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Julie Andrews, one of the guests this year

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at the New Year's Day concert.

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Well, the Vienna Philharmonic Ball is still one of the highpoints

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of the season here in Vienna.

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This year it takes place on January 19th.

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Semyon Bychkov will conduct the orchestra.

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The evening opens with a procession of debutantes, who have

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to prove their dancing skills before they get to take part.

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In the time of the Strausses there were so many balls that

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all efforts had to be made to attract attention.

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"Sensational decorations and magnificent lighting effects"

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promised for the ball at which the next

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work was introduced.

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The evening was called The Journey Into The Lake Of Fire,

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a reference to the devil in the Biblical book of Revelation.

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And the new waltz that Strauss wrote for the occasion was titled

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Mephistopheles' Calls from Hell.

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It was January 1870 that this magnificent concert hall

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opened to the public.

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"From all sides spring golden colours," wrote the great critic

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Eduard Hanslick of the new building.

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Gustavo Dudamel returns to conduct Johann Strauss Jr.

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MUSIC: Mephistos Hollenrufe by Johann Strauss Jr

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APPLAUSE

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Mephistopheles' Calls from Hell, a waltz by Johann Strauss Jr.

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Well, we're going to finish part one of this 2017 New Year's Day Concert

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with one of his fast polkas, the title taken from the libretto

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of his opera A Night In Venice, an optimistic title too -

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We're Not That Worried.

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MUSIC: So angstlich sind wir nicht by Johann Strauss Jr

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Gustavo Dudamel conducting the Vienna Philharmonic

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this New Year's Day in Johann Strauss Jr's

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polka We're Not That Worried.

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Well, Franz von Suppe was the father of Viennese operetta.

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Born in Split, now in Croatia, but once part

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of the Austro-Hungarian Empire,

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he came to Vienna at 16 to study at the Conservatoire.

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He created more than 200 stage works,

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most of them relegated to dusty shelves,

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but the overture to Pique Dame, The Queen Of Spades,

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has found an independent life.

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Gustavo Dudamel makes his way onto the platform.

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The Vienna Philharmonic rises to its feet

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to greet him this New Year's Day.

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MUSIC: Overture from the operetta Pique Dame

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The overture to Franz von Suppe's Pique Dame.

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The flute section led by Karl Heinz Schutz.

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Gustavo Dudamel conducting the Vienna Philharmonic

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this New Year's Day.

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Ballet has long been a popular part of the New Year's Day Concert,

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and this year we meet dancers from the Vienna State Ballet

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in the park of the Hermesvilla, built by the Emporer Franz Josef

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in an attempt to curb the wanderlust of his beloved wife Sisi.

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The music is a waltz from Der Schatzmeister,

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an operetta by Carl Michael Ziehrer.

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MUSIC: Hereinspaziert! by Carl M Ziehrer

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Gustavo Dudamel conducting the waltz Step Right Up.

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From Der Schatzmeister by Carl Michael Ziehrer.

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The Italian Renato Zanella, artistic director of

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Vienna State Ballet for ten years, the choreographer

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for today's concert.

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Coming on to the stage now, members of the Vienna

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Singverein, an amateur chorus long associated with the orchestra.

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They are going to join the Vienna Philharmonic in

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the Moonrise from Otto Nicholai's comic opera The Merry Wives

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of Windsor, based on Shakespeare.

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Last year we marked the 400th anniversary

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of William Shakespeare's death - this year in Vienna the celebrations

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are for the 175th anniversary of the founding of the Vienna

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Philharmonic.

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And Otto Nicholai was one of the founders,

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one of three men who, in 1842,

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decided to launch a professional orchestra in this city.

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Nicolai set out the rules, which survive to this day,

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the orchestra is self governing, players choose the conductor,

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and divide the earnings amongst themselves.

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Moonrise, from the Merry Wives of Windsor.

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MUSIC: Mondaufgang by Otto Nicolai

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The Vienna Singverein and Vienna Philharmonic honouring

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Otto Nicholai, one of the orchestra's founders 175 years ago.

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Moonrise, from his opera The Merry Wives of Windsor.

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Johannes Prinz - the Chorus Master.

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Just a second to enjoy the magnificent flowers here today.

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30,000 blossoms, nurtured for today by the staff

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of Vienna's Municipal Department No 42 - which runs the city's

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parks and gardens.

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The director keen to reflect on the rich colours of Venezuela,

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you might see the odd pineapple and lemons in the mix too.

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Pink and green flamingo flowers, cymbidia.

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Amaryllis, too.

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MUSIC: Pepita-Polka by Johann Strauss II

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That was The Pepita Polka by Johann Strauss.

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Strauss honouring a famous Spanish dancer who came

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to Vienna in the 1850s.

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He was always very good at responding to contemporary

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events - in 1873 he wrote a quadrille

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for the opening of a new Rotunda

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in Vienna which had an English architect.

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MUSIC: Rotunde-Quadrille by Johann Strauss II

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The Rotunde-Quadrille,

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written by Strauss for the World's Fair of 1873.

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Alas, weeks of rainfall, a cholera epidemic,

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a stock-market crash and global economic crisis

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rendered the event a flop.

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The rotunda was finally destroyed by a fire in 1937.

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The famous Lipizzaner horses are one of the symbols of Vienna.

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We'll see them next as we visit the Spanish Riding School,

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accompanied by Strauss's waltz The Extravagants.

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By the way, they are not actually white horses, they are dark, they

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get progressively lighter grey each year.

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MUSIC: Die Extravaganten by Johann Strauss II

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Lipizzaner horses and Gustavo Dudamel conducting

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the Vienna Philharmonic in Johann Strauss Jr's

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waltz The Extravagants.

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Written for the Solicitors Ball.

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His father next, and a galop he composed after a group

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of Indian classical dancers visited Vienna in the late 1830s.

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Received, it seems, with confused curiosity from the Viennese public.

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MUSIC: Indianer-Galopp by Johann Strauss

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The Indian Galop by Johann Strauss Senior.

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We're working our way through the family,

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his middle son Josef next,

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taking us out of Vienna to Nusswald, a valley in southeastern

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Lower Austria, populated in the 19th century

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predominantly by Protestant timber workers.

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This is the polka, The Girl From Nasswald.

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MUSIC: Die Nasswalderin by Johann Strauss

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A man who can play the whistle and conduct at the same time.

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Gustavo Dudamel conducting The Girl from Nusswald - by Josef Strauss.

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More dancing next this New Year's Day.

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You may have detected that the ballet we saw earlier

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was recorded on a hot summer's day.

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Next, though, we have dancers actually with us here

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in the Musikverein - students of the Vienna State

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Opera Ballet Academy.

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They are going to dance to a polka Johann Strauss

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wrote for a party at his own Palace in 1888.

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100 guests, the last of whom didn't leave until 8:30 in the morning.

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You might be able to relate to that this New Year's Day!

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MUSIC: Auf zum Tanze! By Johann Strauss II

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Members of the Vienna State Opera Ballet Academy.

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And a comedy role for one of the ushers here at the Musikverein,

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or maybe he's a costumed dancer.

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Gustavo Dudamel conducting.

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Now, Strauss's first operetta was called

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Indigo and the 40 Thieves.

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It struggled under an incredibly complicated storyline.

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But the waltz that survived from the piece,

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A Thousand and One Nights, considered one of his finest.

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MUSIC: Tausend und eine Nacht by Johann Strauss II

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The waltz A Thousand And One Nights by Johann Strauss,

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Gustavo Dudamel conducting the Vienna Philharmonic.

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The trumpeter, Jurgen Pochhacker.

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Now, Vienna has museums filled with Old Masters and works

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by Klimt and Schiele,

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but it also has museums dedicated to globes, to funerals,

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and the language Esperanto,

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all of which make the Clock Museum seem pretty mainstream.

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We visit it now,

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with Johann Strauss's Tik-Tak-Polka from Die Fledermaus.

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It's located in one of the oldest houses in the centre of the city,

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and it's home to around 4,000 clocks.

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MUSIC: Tik-Tak by Johann Strauss II

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Strauss' Tik-Tak-Polka.

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That comes from Strauss' operetta Die Fledermaus,

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one of the traditions of New Year in Vienna,

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on last night and again this evening,

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at the both the Volksoper and the Vienna State Opera,

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where Otto Schenk's lavish production gets another outing.

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Other New Year traditions here include the bells

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of the Stephansdom ringing out the old and in the new,

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loud fireworks across the city, pigs in porcelain,

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glass and marzipan to bring good luck,

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and Dinner For One on the television.

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Its punchline, same procedure as every year,

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seems to rather reflect the continuity

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reassuring as the new year comes.

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Flowers for Gustavo Dudamel, who next is going to conduct the one

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member of the Strauss family we haven't featured so far this year

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- Eduard Strauss, the youngest of the brothers,

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who became conductor of the Strauss Orchestra in 1861,

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touring with them across two continents,

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and performing in 840 towns and cities.

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When he disbanded the orchestra in 1901 the last work he conducted

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was the fast polka With Pleasure.

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MUSIC: Mit Vergnugen by Eduard Strauss

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Eduard Strauss's polka With Pleasure.

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If you're a regular viewer, I don't know if you've noticed

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that the Vienna Philharmonic players and Maestro Dudamel

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have new concert attire.

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And British too, designed by Dame Vivienne Westwood

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and her Austrian husband, Andreas Kronthaler,

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tailored in the elegant cut of Savile Row bespoke,

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a modern interpretation of the traditional tailcoat for men,

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the women of the orchestra, I've counted seven on stage today,

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get a short jacket inspired by a frock coat.

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The outfits making their first appearance on stage today.

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175 years of the Vienna Philharmonic,

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150 years of the Blue Danube.

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First heard in February 1867 at a ball in Leopoldstadt district,

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then performed with words sung by choir.

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The Austrian Mint has produced a silver five

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euro coin to celebrate.

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Rather appropriate, as Strauss was paid one gold ducat

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when he wrote the piece.

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A work that over the years has become an unofficial

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national anthem of Austria,

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key to the New Year and this New Year's Day Concert.

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Conducted by Gustavo Dudamel, music director of the Los

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Angeles Philharmonic, conductor of the

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Simon Bolivar Symphony Orchestra in Venezuela.

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MUSIC: An der schonen blauen Donau by Johann Strauss II

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LAUGHTER

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Die Wiener Philharmoniker und ich wunschen Ihnen...

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ALL: Prosit Neujahr!

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MUSIC: An der schonen blauen Donau by Johann Strauss II

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APPLAUSE

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The Blue Danube, by Johann Strauss Jr,

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horn soloist, Josef Reif.

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The Blue Danube written 150 years ago.

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Rainer Honeck, Leader of the orchestra and Albena

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Danailova, co-Leader.

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175 years old this year the Vienna Philharminic.

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Gustavo Dudamel, at 35, the youngest conductor ever to lead

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the New Year's Concert, he turns 36 at the end

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of this month.

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Well, there is one New Year tradition left.

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It was an Austrian Army band who premiered Strauss senior's

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Radetsky March in 1848.

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Then it was the officers who clapped and stamped their heels

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in time with the music.

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Now the entire audience of the Musikverein beats something

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approximating time.

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MUSIC: Radetzky-Marsch by Johann Strauss

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Great direction of the audience here from Gustavo Dudamel.

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The Vienna Philharmonic playing the Radetsky March

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by Johann Strauss senior.

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And so 2017 is upon us, no stopping the clock or the calendar.

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As Walter Scott said, "Each age has deemed the new-born year

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the fittest time for festal cheer."

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Cheer may be in shorter supply than usual this New Year.

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But I hope the rich tradition of this concert has

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brought at least some to you.

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Julie Andrews in the audience here, she presents this concert

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on American television.

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I tell you what, the audience here may look well behaved

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but as soon as we go

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off air there'll be something of a scramble to grab a handful

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of the wonderful flowers that decorate the hall.

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Many thanks to our colleagues at ORF and Eurovision.

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This is Petroc Trelawny in Vienna signing off.

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Happy New Year.

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