New Years Concert 2005

Starring: Lorin Maazel, Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra Dvd Release: 31st January, 2005 Number Of Discs: 1 Format: Closed-captioned, Colour, PAL, Region 0 Encoding

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Lorin Varencove Maazel is a conductor, violinist & composer. Maazel was born to American parents in Neuilly-sur-Seine in France & brought up in the United States. He was something of a prodigy, making his conducting debut before he was ten & violin debut at the age of fifteen. He later studied at the University of Pittsburgh. In 1960 he became the first American to conduct at Bayreuth. He was conductor of the Deutsche Oper Berlin from 1965 to 1971, of the Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra from 1965 to 1975, of the Cleveland Orchestra from 1972 to 1982, of the Vienna State Opera from 1982 to 1984, of the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra from 1988 to 1996 & of the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra from 1993. In 2002 he succeeded Kurt Masur as music director of the New York Philharmonic Orchestra. Posters Of Aida

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The Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra is the best known orchestra in Austria & one of Europe s major ensembles. Its home base is the world-famous Musikverein. The members of the orchestra are chosen from the Orchestra of the Vienna State Opera. Although the orchestra is widely acknowledged as one of the worlds finest, it has come in for some criticism because until 1997 it has not allowed women to join their society. Some people associated with the organization have also been criticised for saying that it is important to maintain the ethnic uniformity of the orchestra in order to maintain high playing standards. The violinist Fritz Kreisler was turned down when he applied for a chair in the string section & though Gustav Mahler converted from Judaism the year before he was appointed conductor, he only held the post for four seasons. The orchestra can trace its origins back to 1842, when Otto Nicolai formed what he called a Philharmonic Academy; it was an orchestra which was fully independent & which took all its decisions by a democratic vote of all its members. Posters Of Anton Bruckner

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