The Belgian National Orchestra presents a dazzling New Year’s concert conducted by chief conductor Antony Hermus. He kicks off 2024 with works that festively look ahead to the year to come. In time-honoured fashion, the concert will conclude with Johann Strauss Senior’s famous Radetzky March.
For the last century or so, new year’s celebrations across the Western world would not have been the same without the tradition of Vienna’s famed concert.
Strauss’s Blue Danube keeps waltzing
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Born out of defeat, initially not that popular and dedicated to a river that’s more greeny-grey, the beginnings of “The Blue Danube” 150 years ago this week were inauspicious.
But Johann Strauss Junior’s rousing waltz, first performed on February 15, 1867, is now one of the world’s most famous and catchiest pieces of classical music.
It features in movies galore and is being performed and danced to still.
“An der schönen blauen Donau”, as it is known in the original German, began life as a choral work commissioned by the Vienna Men’s Choral Society.
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With the arrival of Phase 3, Garden Rhapsody at Gardens by the Bay makes its triumphant return. Starting from tomorrow, this popular light and sound show at Supertree Grove is back with two full-scale shows every evening.
A grand total of 10 shows have been planned for 2021, starting with Garden Waltz this January, where 12 Supertrees dance to an uplifting line-up of famous waltz tunes including Frédéric Chopin s Grande Valse Brilliante , Johann Strauss Junior s On the Beautiful Blue Danube and Emile Waldteufel s Skaters Waltz .