150 years have passed since the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra began to play concerts at the Musikvereinssahl, The Golden Hall of the Friends of Music. Here is what this building looks like today.
When I was 14 years old, my father took me to my very first concert at that hall many many years ago. It was hard to get tickets, but we got two single tickets located at different parts of the hall. The program included Modest Mussorgsky’s “Pictures at an Exhibition”.
And I read somewhere that Johannes Brahms was in the audience in 1897, two weeks before he died. At that time, the orchestra performed Brahms’ Symphony #4.
As such, it is appropriate that you have a chance to hear this amazing music conducted by one of the great conductor of all time, Carlos Kleiber:
