Neustadt / WN. After a three-year hiatus, the Neustadt Salon Orchestra shone at the concert in the town hall.
After a three-year hiatus, the Neustädter Salonorchester, conducted by Nicolaus Dick, delighted the audience with a two-hour concert at the Stadthalle. Photo: Hans Prem
The orchestra with over 30 musicians presented itself to the public under the direction of Nicolaus Dick A two-hour concert with melodies of operettas, waltzes, marches and polkas by ancient composers of high musical quality. At the end, rightly so, big applause and standing ovations, rewarded with three encores.
See the good side of life
The title of the concert “Friends, life is worth living” – also known as the solo tenor of the operetta “Giuditta” – must not make us forget the beautiful sides of life, despite all the current problems and the blows of fate in this. world . This undoubtedly includes the recording of beautiful music. Although the time of the corona pandemic was anything but easy for the orchestra. “We had to complain about canceled concerts, no rehearsals for a long time and even deaths”, the president regretted. Massimo Pietro welcoming the 300 listeners. Even shortly before the concert, the orchestra had to be reassigned due to illness. However, he and the musicians were happy to be able to perform publicly again after a three-year hiatus.
A quick start
With the “Less Go” polka by Carl Michael Ziehrer the musicians started right away. led as a moderator Fred Happy fun all evening. “Let’s let go of our worries and fears for a while and enjoy the beautiful melodies we’re about to hear,” she advised. She not only presented the individual pieces, but also told the audience many interesting details about the composers and the creation of their works.
conductor Nicolaus Dick had put together a varied program with famous and world-famous pieces such as the concert waltz “Gold und Silber” by Operettenkönig Franz Lehar. The orchestra also played rarely heard pieces such as “Eva Waltz” from the operetta “Eva”, also by Franz Lehar, or his “Nechledil March”.
Running away in the second half
The second part of the concert began with the famous military march “Unter dem Doppeladler” by Giuseppe Franz Wagner. The snappy march takes its name from the coat of arms of the Austro-Hungarian Empire and is still the official march of the First Austrian Artillery Regiment. “We are happy that the military is not always associated with acts of war,” summed up Fred Fröhlich.
The very entertaining two-hour concert opened with a polka by Carl Michael Ziehrer and ended with the composer’s “Schönfeld-Marsch”. Despite the long pause, the orchestra has lost none of its musical quality. When you consider that musicians play as amateurs for pure entertainment, the high demands of the pieces and their musical accomplishments in this concert cannot be overstated.
