Today...January 1, 2012- Julie Andrews returns for the third time to host the merry annual New Year’s celebration with the Vienna Philharmonic, under the direction of Mariss Jansons from Vienna’s Musikverein. This is Jansons’ second time at the podium of this much cherished event. The famed Vienna Boys’ Choir will add their celestial voices to the gala.
From Vienna: The New Year’s Celebration 2012, featuring the infectious melodies of the Strauss Family and contemporaries, will air live Sunday, January 1 at 2:30 p.m. and again at 9 p.m. ET on WNET
Great Performances is a production of THIRTEEN for WNET, one of America’s most prolific and respected public media providers.
The venerable concert is the largest world-wide event in classical music reaching over a billion people annually through radio and television in 72 countries. The Vienna Philharmonic’s traditional New Year’s program has showcased Viennese musical culture at the highest level, and since the first television broadcast in 1959, sent the world a New Year's greeting in the spirit of hope, friendship and peace. (The telecast has been a Great Performances tradition on PBS since 1985.)
The musical program was scheduled to run as follows:
Joseph Hellmesberger Jun.
Danse Diabolique
Josef Strauss
Artists Greeting, French Polka, op. 274
Johann Strauss
Enjoy Life, Waltz, op. 340
Johann Strauss Sr.
Sperl Galopp, op. 42
Hans Christian Lumbye
Steam Railway, Galopp
Josef Strauss
Fireproof, French Polka, op. 269
(with The Vienna Boys’ Choir)
Eduard Strauss
Carmen Quadrille
Peter I. Tschaikowsky
Panorama from the Ballet “Sleeping Beauty”
Peter I. Tschaikowsky
Waltz from the Ballet “Sleeping Beauty”
Johann und Josef Strauss
Pizzicato Polka op. 25
Johann Strauss
Persian March, op. 289
Josef Strauss
Burning Love, Polka Mazurka, op. 129
Johann Strauss
Thunder and Lightning, Fast Polka, op. 324
Johann Strauss
Tick Tock, Fast Polka, op. 365
Johann Strauss
The Blue Danube Waltz, op. 314
Johann Strauss Sr.
Radetzky March, op. 228
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