We attended the Worthing Symphony Orchestra Viennese New Year Concert in the Assembly Hall on Sunday 6th January.
The concert was a blend of the familiar and the unfamiliar. There were a total of four works by Johann Strauss the Second and one by Johann Strauss the First (the Radetzky March). The common theme of the music was gaiety.
Leon Jessel's "March of the Tin Soldiers" was included. The program recorded the fact that his work was banned in Germany and Austria because of his Jewish ancestry.
Perhaps the most unexpected addition was the inclusion of "The Teddy Bear's Picnic" by John W Bratton as the penultimate work.
The whole evening was a wonderful experience.
Conductor, John Gibbons did an excellent job although he did tend towards the anecdotal. The audience went away knowing more about his rose garden than they realised they needed to know.
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