December 26 just gone: the Budapest Festival Orchestra & Iván Fischer give a “Surprise Concert”, including movements from Symphonies (beginning with Bruckner 7). Wacky! Will you open the box?

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canderson on December 29, 2021 at 11:42 am

“Program:
Anton Bruckner: Symphony No. 7 in E Major – I. Allegro moderato
Sergei Rachmaninoff: Symphony No. 2 in E minor – II. Allegro molto
Gustav Mahler: Symphony No. 6 in A minor – III. Andante moderato
Sergei Prokofjev: Symphony No. 1 in D Major – IV. Molto vivace
Philip Glass: Façades
Leroy Anderson: Blue tango
Johannes Brahms: Hungarian dance Nr. 21
Sergei Rachmaninov: Vocalise
Johann Strauss: Bauern polka
The concert was recorded on December 26, 2021 in the Budapest Congress Center.”
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pjl on December 29, 2021 at 4:02 pm

he did a similar Prom several years ago (10 pm), throwing a furry toy hare (‘hase’ he called it, I think) into the audience: whoever caught it nominated from the list and then there was a second hare chucking, so the audience vocally voted for which of the two they wanted…I seem to remember the Stravinsky TANGO and Kodaly’s Dances of Galanta. While the librarian fetched the music and laid it out members of the band played or sang folk music.
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