Calling the Vienna Youth Players’ production of Elton John’s “Aida” an “amateur” production is like calling the Concorde an airplane, the Beatles singers and Michelangelo a painter. While true, they ...
Two things flow through the heart of Vienna’s historic city centre: one largely unseen and the other impossible to avoid. The first is the river Wien, which emerges from its underground hiding place ...
Vienna was historically such a mecca for classical music because of the passion and patronage of the ruling Hapsburg family. These music-loving royals ruled Austria for more than six centuries from ...
Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by The Philharmonic’s latest New Year’s Concert will feature its longest-serving conductor, a waltz by a female composer and a big birthday tribute to ...
On a busy pedestrian street in the heart of Vienna, a musician has set up his “stage” and is playing a violin. He stands near a souvenir shop named Mostly Mozart. Further up the street, flyers are ...
Visit the home of classical music for concerts, museums and to walk in the footsteps of the legends who put the Austrian capital on the map “Indecent” may have been the earliest verdict on the waltz.
Back in the summer of 1969, I took my first trip to Europe. My father, a piano importer, took me to Vienna's Bosendorfer piano factory. Together, my dad and I watched the world's finest pianos being ...