New Year's Day Concerts

Classical New England will offer a couple of New Year's Day concerts.

The Vienna Philharmonic's concert* will be broadcast and streamed live at 11:00 a.m. Eastern Standard Time, and retransmitted at 6:00 p.m.

Boston Baroque's concert will also be transmitted live from Sanders Theater in Cambridge, Massachusetts at 3:00 p.m. "Boston time."


*For those unfamiliar with the tradition at these concerts, there are "always" encores at the end, and these always include the Blue Danube Waltz (which "always" gets a burst of applause after the first note is heard. The music stops and the conductor says, "Die Wiener Philharmoniiler und ich wünschen Ihnen …," and the orchestra shouts, "Prosit Neujahr!" "The Vienna Philharmonic and I wish you …" "Happy New Year" — literally "Cheers! New Year!" Then they play the waltz.) and the Radetzky March.

I'll be in church at 11:00, but I'm planing to listen at 3:00 and 6:00.

Enjoy!

New Year's Concert etc.

If you missed the live performance of the Vienna Philharmonic's 2011 New Year's Day Concert (or even if you didn't), you can hear it over WCRB on Sunday, January 2, at 3:00 p.m., "Boston Time."

Also I was wrong to assume that the entire Bach Christmas Oratorio would be given last weekend. They only played the first three parts, leaving the final three for this weekend, I suppose. But I haven't been listening carefully enough to find out exactly when they will present (have presented) them. My best guess is that Part 5 or 6 will be presented sometime between 10:00 and 11:00 a.m. on Sunday, January 2.