New Year's Concert Vienna 2012

In view of the tradition of the New Year's Concerts, which began during the Second World War, the Vienna Philharmonic performs the concert even today not only as a presentation of viennese musical culture at the highest level, but also to send the world a New Year's greeting in the spirit of hope, friendship and peace.

Program

• Johann and Joseph Strauss: "Vaterländischer Marsch (Fatherland March)"
• Johann Strauss: "Rathausball-Tänze (City Hall Ball Dances)", Waltz, op. 438
• Johann Strauss: "Entweder – oder! (Either - Or!)", Fast Polka, op. 403
• Johann Strauss: "Tritsch-Tratsch (Chit-Chat)", Polka, op. 214
• Carl Michael Ziehrer: "Wiener Bürger (Viennese Folk)", Waltz, op. 419
• Johann Strauss: "Albion Polka", op. 102
• Joseph Strauss: "Jokey Polka (Jockey Polka)", Fast Polka, op. 278

- Intermission -

• Joseph Hellmesberger, Jr.: Danse Diabolique (Diabolic Dance)
• Joseph Strauss: "Künstler-Gruss (Artists Greeting)", Polka française, op. 274
• Johann Strauss: "Freuet euch des Lebens (Enjoy Life)", Waltz, op. 340
• Johann Strauss, Sr.: "Sperl Galopp", op. 42
• Hans Christian Lumbye: Copenhagen Railway Steam Gallop
• Joseph Strauss: "Feuerfest (Fireproof)", Polka française, op. 269
• Eduard Strauss: "Carmen-Quadrille", op. 134
• Peter I. Tchaikovsky: "Panorama" from the Ballet "Sleeping Beauty", op. 66
• Peter I. Tchaikovsky: "Waltz" from the Ballet "Sleeping Beauty", op. 66
• Johann and Joseph Strauss: "Pizzicato Polka", no opus number
• Johann Strauss: "Persischer Marsch (Persian March)", op. 289
• Joseph Strauss: "Brennende Liebe (Burning Love)", Polka Mazur, op. 129
• Joseph Strauss: "Delirien (Delirium)", Waltz, op. 212
• Johann Strauss: "Unter Donner und Blitz (Thunder and Lightning)", Fast Polka, op. 324

Location: Musikverein, Golden Hall (Vienna, Austria) Conductor: Mariss Jansons

Famous Quotes

"What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us; what we have done for others and the world remains and is immortal."

Albert Pike (1809-1891)

Les choristes

The Chorus (French: Les choristes) is a 2004 French drama film directed by Christophe Barratier. It is an adaptation of the 1945 film A Cage of Nightingales (La Cage aux Rossignols).

Widely successful orchestra conductor Pierre Morhange returns to France when his mother dies. He reminiscences about his childhood inspirations through the pages of a diary kept by his old music teacher Clément Mathieu. In 1949, a young Pierre is the badly behaved son of single mother Violette. He attends a boarding institution, Fond de L'Etang, for "difficult" boys presided over by strict headmaster Mr. Rachin. New teacher Mathieu brightens up the school and assembles a choir, leading to the discovery of Pierre's musical talents and a transformation in the children.

Merry Christmas

It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas

Lazarus Syndrome

Lazarus syndrome is the spontaneous return of circulation after failed attempts at resuscitation. Its occurrence has been noted in medical literature at least 25 times since 1982. Also called Lazarus phenomenon, it takes its name from the biblical story of Lazarus, who was raised from the dead by Jesus. In one case, a 66-year-old man was suffering from a suspected abdominal aneurysm. During treatment for this condition, the patient suffered cardiac arrest and received chest compressions and defibrillation shocks for 17 minutes. Vital signs did not return; the patient was declared dead and resuscitation efforts ended. Ten minutes later, the surgeon felt a pulse. The aneurysm was successfully treated and the patient fully recovered with no lasting physical or neurological problems.

The Raising of Lazarus; REMBRANDT; 1630

Famous Quotes

It is our choices that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.

 Albus Dumbledore

The Choice of Hercules between Virtue and Pleasure
by Benjamin West (1764)

My 5th Symphony

Person Of The Year

Colours

Look at the image and say the colour not the word.

Left - Right Conflict

Your right brain tries to say the colour but your left brain insists on reading the word.

Cheers

To all the money spent on books...
To all nights spent sleeping over them...

To all the books which when put together,
weigh more than me...

To all the effort put to stay awake in lectures,
Attendance being the main feature !!!

To all the patients histories faked...
To all the vivas baked....

To all exams and their jhatkas...
From harrisons to ghutkas...

To all the entrance tests...
Doubting a Man's Best !!!

To all the batch folks,
and your stupid jokes...

To all the white coats...
And the detergent it soaks....

Live your dream, live your quest !!!
Cheers to the medical life !!!

Unknown author

Let Them Eat Cake

According to popular myth, Queen Marie Antoinette was heard to say: “S’ils n’ont plus de pain, qu’ils mangent de la brioche.” (“If they have no bread, let them eat brioche”) – referring to the poor.  But, even if Queen Marie had made this comment, it would have not had the same meaning as it does today. Laws at the time of her reign meant that bakers who ran out of cheap bread, had to sell their finer bread (such as brioche) at the lower price, in order to protect people from ruthless bakers who would make insufficient quantities of inexpensive bread in order to make a bigger profit. That aside, the Queen did not say these words at all, they were actually written by Jean-Jacques Rousseau in his book “Confessions” – written a number of years before Marie Antoinette became Queen. His exact words:

''I recalled the make-shift of a great princess who was told that the peasants had no bread and who replied: 'Let them eat brioche'.''

The misattribution and perpetuation of this myth is most likely a result of anti-Royal propaganda following the revolution in which she and her husband were murdered.

Jar of Hearts

Thank You, Lord !!

Indiana Doges

A Must Read

The Lost Symbol is a masterstroke of storytelling--a deadly race through a real-world labyrinth of codes, secrets, and unseen truths . . . all under the watchful eye of Brown’s most terrifying villain to date. Set within the hidden chambers, tunnels, and temples of Washington, D.C., The Lost Symbol accelerates through a startling landscape toward an unthinkable finale.

Moon & Stars

Noetic Sciences

From the Greek noēsis / noētikos, meaning inner wisdom, direct knowing, or subjective understanding, Noetic Sciences is a multidisciplinary field that brings objective scientific tools and techniques together with subjective inner knowing to study the full range of human experiences.

The essential hypothesis underlying the Noetic Sciences is simply that consciousness matters. The question is when, how, and why does it matter?

There are several ways we can know the world around us. Science focuses on external observation and is grounded in objective evaluation, measurement, and experimentation. This is useful in increasing objectivity and reducing bias and inaccuracy as we interpret what we observe. But another way of knowing is subjective or internal, including gut feelings, intuition, and hunches - the way you know you love your children, for example, or experiences you have that cannot be explained or proven “rationally” but feel absolutely real. This way of knowing is what we call noetic.

From a purely materialist, mechanistic perspective, all subjective – noetic - experience arises from physical matter, and consciousness is simply a byproduct of brain and body processes. But there is another perspective, suggesting a far more complex relationship between the physical and the nonphysical. The Noetic Sciences apply a scientific lens to the study of subjective experience and to ways that consciousness may influence the physical world, and the data to date have raised plenty of provocative new questions.

Noetic Sciences is a growing field of valid inquiry. Every new discovery leads to more questions as the mystery of human consciousness slowly unfolds. In the areas of consciousness and healing, extended human capacities, and worldview transformation, it keeps pushing the boundaries of what we know, advancing our shared understanding of consciousness.

Comptine d'un autre été - L'áprés midi

Famous Quotes

Wanderer über dem Nebelmeer
Caspar David Friedrich (1818) 

" To live in the world without becoming aware of the meaning of the world is like wandering about in a great library without touching the books."

The Secret Teachings of All Ages