A sonorous start to 2024: New Year's concert in Beckum

The "festival:philharmonie westfalen" welcomes the year 2024 with an enchanting potpourri of the most beautiful sounds of the Viennese Strauss dynasty. After the orchestra literally swept the guests off their feet with its first New Year's concert in Beckum at the beginning of 2023, the orchestra is now presenting a rousing programme of famous waltzes, lively polkas and cheerful marches for the second time.

In addition to numerous pieces by the Viennese Strauss dynasty, the programme also includes works by other composers. "This year will be a little more colourful," promises Michael Zlabinger, chief conductor of the "festival:philharmonie westfalen". Concertgoers can look forward to an appealing mix of different composers that will immerse them in a world full of emotion and musical brilliance.

Lively melodies and cheerful rhythms

The New Year's Concert opens with Bedrich Smetana's rousing overture to the opera "The Bartered Bride", which transports the audience into the world of classical opera with its lively melodies and cheerful rhythms. Works by Joseph Strauss and Niccolo Paganini are followed by several pieces by Johann Strauss Sohn, the 19th century Austrian composer also known as the "Waltz King", whose outstanding talent enriched the world with a multitude of waltzes, polkas and operettas. The programme includes the energetic polka "Unter Donner und Blitz" and the timeless masterpiece "Geschichten aus dem Wienerwald".

As a proven "Strauss connoisseur", conductor Michael Zlabinger from Vienna knows exactly how to interpret the works in the spirit of his home city. He is conducting the "festival:philharmonie westfalen" for the third time this season.

Tickets in the citizens' offices and online

Tickets for the New Year's Concert on 21 January 2024 at 17:00 in the Beckum Municipal Theatre will be available from 17 November 2023 at the citizens' offices in Beckum and Neubeckum, by phone at Kulturkartenverkauf 02521 29-3350 and online at www.beckum.de/kartenvorverkauf.

Homepage of the conductor Michael Zlabinger: https://www.michael-zlabinger.com/

Homepage of the "festival:philharmonie westfalen ": https://www.musiklandschaft-westfalen.de/musikfoerderung/festival-philharmonie-westfalen/