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The group has served as the vehicle for Rieu's increasingly ambitious ideas since its founding. [3] In 1987 André renamed the MSO as the Johann Strauss Orchestra to emphasise waltz music. [2] On the occasion of Rieu's first concert with the orchestra, on January 1, 1988, there were 12 musicians.
André Léon Marie Nicolas Rieu (Dutch: [ˈɑndreː riˈjøː], French: [ɑ̃dʁe ʁjø]; born 1 October 1949) is a Dutch violinist and conductor best known for creating the waltz-playing Johann Strauss Orchestra. Rieu and his orchestra have turned classical and waltz music into a worldwide concert touring act. [1] He resides in his native ...
Irving Plaza (known through sponsorship as Irving Plaza, powered by Klipsch [1] and formerly known as the Fillmore New York at Irving Plaza) is a ballroom-style music venue located within the Union Square neighborhood of Manhattan in New York City. It was featured on the Complex City Guide list of "50 Best Concert Venues of America" in 2013. [2]
A fan of the Dutch violinist, Hopkins's wife [4] sent his waltz to Rieu for consideration. [5] [6] Inspired by New Zealand's stunning landscape and the ‘life must go on’ attitude of its people in the face of the recent natural disasters, André composed a dreamy waltz together with his first violinist Frank Steijns entitled "Dreaming of New ...
The concert hall, which could seat 1,100 spectators, was on the 43rd Street side of the building, on the first and second floors. [7]The New York Symphony Society performed concerts in both Aeolian Hall and Carnegie Hall, but moved in 1924 to the new Mecca Auditorium on 55th Street.
The theatre at 105 Second Avenue that became the Fillmore East was originally built as a Yiddish theater in 1925–26, designed by Harrison Wiseman in the Medieval Revival style, at a time when that section of Second Avenue was known as the "Yiddish Theater District" and the "Jewish Rialto" [1] because of the numerous theatres that catered to a Yiddish-speaking audience.
Wetlands Preserved: The Story of an Activist Rock Club, [9] a 90-minute documentary that commemorates Wetlands Preserve, was released in 2008. Produced and directed by Relix's Dean Budnick, the film gained accolades on the film festival circuit [10] and then aired for several years on Sundance Channel.
Woodstock Reunion 1979 was a concert on September 8, 1979, at Parr Meadows racetrack in the hamlet of Yaphank in the town of Brookhaven, Suffolk County, Long Island, New York. It had an audience of about 18,000 to 40,000 (reports vary) and was organized for the 10th anniversary of the original Woodstock Festival , by concert promoter Richard ...