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The orchestra, whose image is closely tied to the 18th century Vienna of Haydn, Mozart and Beethoven, has long been one of Vienna’s biggest tourist attractions an integral part of the Austrian ...
VIENNA, Austria — The men of the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra play a music they say is unique. It is a sound of distinctly full brass and velvety strings, with masterfully balanced rests and ...
The Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, which arrives in Berkeley this week for a three-concert series that marks its first Bay Area visit in more than 20 years, is by common agreement one of the ...
Symphony orchestras dwell in the past—that’s where most of the music is—but few have such a tormented history, or live it with such troubled passion, as the Vienna Philharmonic. The ...
The Vienna Symphony Orchestra has announced today that the successor to Philippe Jordan will be Colombian-born Andrés Orozco-Estrada.He will officially start his tenure with the 2021/22 season ...
The Mozarteum Orchestra and the Vienna Symphony On the 250th anniversary of Mozart's birth, NPR's Fred Child wraps up a week of musical celebrations in Salzburg, Austria.
The Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra will return to a French family a valuable painting that was looted by the Nazis and given to the orchestra as a gift in 1940 by a Viennese secret police official.
Vienna has long been a great center of music, and that fact inspired Waukegan Symphony Orchestra music director Stephen Blackwelder to program the group’s Sunday concert dedicated to composers ...
The famed Vienna Philharmonic has acknowledged that many of its musicians were Nazi party members during Hitler’s rule and that its director may have delivered a prestigious orchestra award to a ...