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what's with all these people with light sabers in the audience...

We'll I'm glad that I spotted it well!

Is this shared here before? Brassband De Bazuin Oenkerk (where a long time ago I played as percussionist) that perform multiple arrangements of John Williams' music:

I'm always looking around. Here, I spotted the glockenspiel and the rest of the percussion after the concert...😊

Yep. As said at the corridor of the Parterre right. Close to the men's toilets...😁

I compared them with the video on YouTube and noticed quite some different players. At least the first violin player (concert master), the second flute, which was a woman in 2022 and I guess also the timpani player (or he got bold really quick...😅). In fact the timpani player in 2020 now was the percussionist stating there will be a schalplatte....

In the Netherlands we also say that a band makes 'een nieuwe plaat'. But that as well is a general reference to vinyl, CD, or even streaming. Ps. Interesting note on the door: Please put phones into fly-mode. Direct to disc... Something to do with interference?

I joked to my neigbour that they probably hired and paid you to immediately stand up after each piece. 😅😂 I liked it!

Yep! Well, I didn't see any cameras...

What happened in Vienna stays in Vienna...

I we keep on talking we were neigbbours...

Must have been row 5, cause I was on row 7...😊

Mainly thanks two 2 people just in front of me that stood up immediately after each piece. I just saw them at the airport again...😁

The horns and trumpets were superb today. Also special shoutout to the timpani player. He had a nice and difficult solo in the violin concerto. Although I was sitting on row 7, I had troubling sight. Maybe it was because the constant wet eyes, when I realized how lucky we are to be able to go to this concert in freedom. A true highlight in my musical life. Even more grateful and at the same time very confronting, when I came back at Vienna trainstation and saw a group of Ukrainian refugees that just arrived. Lucky badtards we are. Next week I'm going to sign up as volunteer and help refugees in my local town. Cheers!

After the concert I was talking outside to one of the percussionist and he confirmed that there will be a 'schallplatte'...😎 Recording in the making!

Unfortunately it wasn't played It just next to the men toilets at the Parterre rechts...😅

Something 's being recorded here...😉

A sunny Sunday morning again... IMG_2747.MOV Busy Sunday morning for the timpani player...😅

I'm there on Sunday. Parterre, row 7

What about the renowned Concertgebouw Orchestra from the Netherlands? Together with the Wiener and Berliner Philharmonic, often considered as one of the best orchestra's in the world. Would love to see Williams once play in the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam...

Now without the annoying naked statue...😅

It's in the Musikverein, which indeed is the same venue as where the new year's concert takes place.