Today, Wednesday, January 8th, the Tonkunstler-Orchester Niederösterreich under Alfred Eschwé will once again give its traditional New Year’s concert in the Festspielhaus St. Pölten with music by Josef and Johann Strauss, Johann Strauss Vater, Giuseppe Verdi and Ruperto Chapí; The soloist is the soprano Aleksandra Szmyd. Starts at 6 p.m.; Further information and tickets are available from the Festspielhaus St. Pölten on 02742/908080-600, e-mail karten@festspielhaus.at and www.festspielhaus.at.
At the Cinema Paradiso St. Pölten, tomorrow, Thursday, January 9th, from 9:30 a.m., Christoph Richter will be inviting parents of small children to come “to the concert with baby” with his solo piano program. Further information and maps on 02742/21400 and www.cinema-paradiso.at/st-poelten.
Also, tomorrow, Thursday, January 9th, the next “Jazz Café Project” will open its doors at the Theater am Steg in Baden at 7 p.m. – this time the quintet Jive for Five will play blues, boogie, jive and more from classics like “Night Train “ and “Harlem Nocturne” to blues titles like “Green Onions” and “Sweet Home Chicago” to evergreens like “Buona Sera” or “Just a Gigolo.” Admission: free donation; For more information, contact the municipality of Baden on 02252/86800-522 and e-mail cornelia.znoy@baden.gv.at.
Compositions by Johann Strauss, Gioachino Rossini, Johannes Brahms, Bedřich Smetana, Franz Drdla, Johann Nepomuk Hofzinser and others will be included in the New Year’s concert by the Academia Allegro Vivo under Vahid Khadem-Missagh tomorrow, Thursday, January 9th, from 7 p.m. in the Palmenhaus Gmünd and on Friday , January 10th, from 7:30 p.m. in the Weinviertel Concert Hall in Ziersdorf. The children’s concert “The Waltz King” is on the program from 5 p.m. on both days, where the works of Johann Strauss can be discovered while singing, dancing, playing and laughing. Further information and tickets for Gmünd can be found at 02982/4319, e-mail tickets @allegro-vivo.at and www.allegro-vivo.at or for Ziersdorf at 02956/2204-16, e-mail tickets@konzerthaus-weinviertel.at and www.konzerthaus-weinviertel.at.
On Friday, January 10th, the Baden Stage Orchestra under the direction of Marius Burkert will perform together with the soprano Sieglinde Feldhofer in the Biedermannsdorf Anniversary Hall, where from 7:30 p.m. there will be a New Year’s concert with melodies from operas and operettas as well as waltzes and polkas by Johann Strauss, Bedřich Smetana, Franz von Suppé and others will be heard. Further information and maps can be found at the citizen service in the Biedermannsdorf municipal office on 02236/72000, e-mail gemeinde@biedermannsdorf.at and www.sporthalle-biedermannsdorf.at.
On Friday, January 10th, Reinhard Reiskopf & Friends will also be celebrating the King of Rock’n’Roll on his 90th birthday with “The Elvis Birthday Night” at the Altes Depot in Mistelbach and will be presenting a cross-section of his hits from 1956 to in the 1970s. Starts at 7.30 p.m.; more information and maps at Alten Depot Mistelbach 02572/3955, e-mail office@altesdepot.at and www.altesdepot.at.
On Saturday, January 11th, the Vienna Residence Orchestra under Robert Lehrbaumer will play the 23rd Tullnerfeld New Year’s Concert from 7:30 p.m. in the Berghotel Tulbingerkogel with waltz classics by Johann and Josef Strauss; The soloist is the soprano Yuko Mitani. For more information and tickets, call 0699/11351177, email mvm@donaukultur.com and www.donaukultur.com.
The Vienna Cabinet Orchestra will play Viennese music from the “Tritsch-Tratsch” polka to the “Danube Waltz” to the “Radetzkymarsch” in the smallest possible salon orchestra line-up at its New Year’s Concert on Sunday, January 12th, from 11 a.m. in the Werdenspeigen Palace. Tickets on 0664/2730973 and e-mail info@landpartie-kellerberg.at; Further information at 0699/10691488, e-mail office@wienerkabinettorchester.at and www.wienerkabinettorchester.at.
The “Traiskirchner JazzCafé” will take place again at the Ristorante Pierino in Traiskirchen on Tuesday, January 14th from 7 p.m., this time with Karin Love Rich & Band. Admission: free donation; For more information and reservations, call 02252/57227 or 0699/10311726 and email info@ristorante-pierino.at.
Finally, on Tuesday, January 14th, in the Schlosskeller Staatz it will be “A fair day like back then” when the Weinviertler Moravian Musicians will be playing from 7.30 p.m. For more information and tickets, call 0664/5566398, email kulturzentrum.staatz@gmail.com and www.staatz.at.