Linder Auditorium, 25 January 2014, 7.30 p.m. & 26 January 2014, 3.00 p.m.
Opening Concert - Symphony Concert
Hlengiwe Mkhwanazi, soprano
Njabulo Madlala, baritone
dancers from the Joburg Ballet
Johannesburg Festival Orchestra
Richard Cock, conductor
ONE HEART, ONE MIND, ONE WALTZ! - Viennese New Year's Concert
This performance recreates the atmosphere of the annual concert given in Vienna to celebrate the arrival of the New Year. Music by the Strauss family, Lehar and Kreisler will be played, including the famous Blue Danube waltz, Kaiserwalzer and Radetsky March, amongst many other well-known pieces, and songs celebrating Vienna, sung by some of South Africa’s most promising young singers.