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Austrian ensemble carries on New Year鈥檚 concert tradition
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THE Shanghai Concert Hall will ring in the New Year with performances from The Wiener Johann Strauss Capelle, continuing a holiday tradition established over a decade ago.
The ensemble will stage three concerts from December 31 to January 1. It will also perform at a special New Year’s Eve ball at the venue’s south hall.
As its name suggests, the group was once the orchestra of Johann Strauss, a famed composure of waltz, dance and light music.
True to its heritage, on special occasions members of the orchestra play in the same style of red suits and white trousers they originally wore when under Strauss’s leadership in the 1840s.
The orchestra played its first New Year’s concert in Shanghai back in 2004.
It has returned over subsequent years with crowd-pleasing works from its namesake like “Furioso-Polka,” “Roses from the South,” “The Blue Danube,” “Austrian Village Swallows Waltz” and “Radetzky Marsch” — all of which are again on the program for the upcoming performances.
Those who book tickets for the concerts can also book seats at the New Year’s Eve Ball.
Such balls are traditions in Austria, where each New Year hundreds of such events are held.
The tradition was popularized with Joseph II at Hofburg in the 18th century, when balls were opened for the first time to ordinary people rather than just aristocrats or royals.
Here in Shanghai, basic ball etiquette training will be provided at the Concert Hall before the festivities start.
• New Year Eve Ball
Date: December 31,
9pm-11pm
• New Year Concerts
Date: December 31, 7:30pm, 10:30pm; January 1, 2pm
Venue: Shanghai Concert Hall
Address: 523 Yan’an Rd E.
Tickets: 80-980 yuan
Tel: 6217-2426, 6217-3055
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