The Vienna Symphony Orchestra Will World Premiere Frank Wildhorn’s “Danube Symphony” on 3 November 2022
Koen Schoots To Conduct The Vienna Symphony Orchestra In The World Premiere of Frank Wildhorn’s “Danube Symphony”
Composer Frank Wildhorn on the piano
The “Danube Symphony” Marks The First Time The Work of An American Composer is Admitted To The Repertoire Of The Vienna Symphony Orchestra
NEW YORK, NY, UNITED STATES, October 17, 2022 /EINPresswire.com/ — The Vienna Symphony Orchestra To World Premiere FRANK WILDHORN’s “Danube Symphony” At the Wiener Musikverein – 3 November
Wildhorn’s “Jekyll & Hyde” & “Dracula” Suites Also To Be Debuted
The “Danube Symphony”/“Donau Symphonie” Marks The First Time The Work of An American Composer is Admitted To The Repertoire Of The Vienna Symphony Orchestra
New York, NY (October, 17, 2022) — The Vienna Symphony Orchestra will World Premiere Frank Wildhorn’s “Danube Symphony”/”Donau Symphonie” on 3 November 2022 on the famed Wiener Musikverein in Vienna with particular suites from Wildhorn’s Broadway classics, “Jekyll & Hyde” and “Dracula” additionally making their symphonic debuts. Wildhorn is the Tony, Grammy and Emmy Award nominated Composer of Whitney Houston’s number-one-hit “Where Do Broken Hearts Go” and have become the primary American composer in twenty-two years to have three exhibits operating concurrently on Broadway with “Jekyll & Hyde”, “The Scarlet Pimpernel” and “The Civil War”. The “Danube Symphony”/The “Donau Symphonie”, marks the primary time that an American composer is admitted to the Vienna Symphony Orchestra’s (Wiener Symphoniker’s) repertoire.
The night’s programme, performed by Koen Schoots and carried out by the Vienna Symphony Orchestra (Wiener Symphoniker) is comprised of a very new slate of music, together with: the “Jekyll & Hyde” suite (Arranged and Orchestrated by Kim Scharnberg) and the “Dracula” suite (Arranged and Orchestrated by Koen Schoots) adopted by The “Danube Symphony”/“Donau Symphonie” (Arranged and Orchestrated by Kim Scharnberg), all Composed by Frank Wildhorn.
First, got here the CD manufacturing of the Composer’s first Symphony– capturing the composition with a very giant forged of 96 members of the Vienna Symphony, recorded by MG-SOUND STUDIOS on the Viennese Konzerthaus in 2021 and produced by HitSquad Records. Now, in 2022, the identical sixty minutes that make up the recording are celebrated with what shall be a primary climax within the composition’s historical past: its world premiere on the historic Wiener Musikverein. Both are with the assist and steering of Walter Feucht – entrepreneur and musical-enthusiast – in whom Frank Wildhorn has not solely discovered a pal, but additionally a mentor.
The palatial nice corridor of the Musikverein (Großer Musikvereinssaal) with its inimitable acoustics, famously hosts the Vienna Philharmonic’s annual New Year’s Concert (Neujahrskonzert), making it a family title amongst thousands and thousands of music lovers. The concert events second encore – historically Johann Strauß II’s An der schönen blauen Donau (The Blue Danube) – is equally devoted to Europe’s second largest river, additional connecting Wildhorn’s “Donau Symphonie” with the historicity of its premiere’s location – whereas nonetheless filling it with solely new sounds.
The symphony describes a gently blossoming spring, or a waltzing Viennese summer season, in addition to heroic processions and a historical past of the Danube contorted by the altering of the seasons.
The sixty minutes that comprise The “Donau Symphonie” are a vastly romantic declaration of affection to the river and its historical past, reiterating the story of a stream of 1770 miles, which traverses Europe from West to East as a unifying pressure. It is an American interpretation of European immortality that takes up a water-locked musical custom and transports it into the current.
In the conductor’s stand – congenially mediating Wildhorn’s imaginative and prescient between composition and orchestra – is Koen Schoots, whose work on quite a lot of extremely profitable productions – together with, for instance, the Komische Oper Berlin – in addition to his a few years as musical director of the Vereinigten Bühnen in Vienna have left him well-known and regarded all through Europe.
“Frank Wildhorn has created beautiful, emotional music with lots of heart”, praises Anton Sorokow, concertmaster on the Vienna Symphony.
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ABOUT FRANK WILDHORN
Multi-Grammy, Tony, and Emmy Award nominated composer/producer Frank Wildhorn’s works span the worlds of standard, theatrical, and classical music. In 1999, Frank turned the primary American composer in 22 years to have three exhibits operating concurrently on Broadway with “Jekyll & Hyde”, “The Scarlet Pimpernel” and “The Civil War”. Also for Broadway: “Bonnie & Clyde”, “Dracula”, “Victor/Victoria”, “Wonderland”, and the revival of “Jekyll & Hyde.” West End: “Bonnie & Clyde”. International: “Carmen”, “Camille Claudel”, “Casanova”, “Cyrano”, “Death Note”, “Fist of the North Star”, “Mata Hari”, “Mitsuko”, “Never Say Goodbye”, “No Longer Human”, “Rudolf”, “Tears of Heaven”, “The Count of Monte Cristo”, “The Man Who Laughs”, “Your Lie in April” and “Xcalibur”. Upcoming: “The Song of Bernadette” and “Reunion”. He Produced “Harlem Song” on the famed Apollo Theatre. The Korea Times just lately proclaimed Wildhorn as “Korea’s most loved musical composer”.
Wildhorn’s full size “Danube Symphony” shall be carried out by the Vienna Symphony Orchestra in a World Premiere on November 3, 2022 at Musikverein. Conducted by Koen Schoots, the efficiency may even characteristic suites from the Wildhorn productions of “Jekyll and Hyde” and “Dracula” with orchestrations by Kim Scharnberg and Koen Schoots, respectively. The “Danube Symphony”/“Donau Symphonie” marks the primary time the work of an American composer shall be admitted to the repertoire of the Vienna Symphony Orchestra. The “Danube Symphony” was launched on CD and streaming providers in December 2021 by way of HitSquad Records.
Frank served as music director for the Goodwill Games in New York City (1998). He wrote the music “Gold”, the opening quantity for the 2002 Winter Olympics.
Among the artists who’ve recorded and carried out Frank’s works: Whitney Houston (#1 worldwide hit “Where Do Broken Hearts Go?”), Natalie Cole, Kenny Rogers, Sammy Davis, Jr., Liza Minnelli, Julie Andrews, Hootie & the Blowfish, The Moody Blues, Johnny Mathis, Linda Eder, Freddie Jackson, Trisha Yearwood, Stacy Lattisaw, Molly Hatchet, Blues Traveler, Trace Adkins, Patti LaBelle, Jeffrey Osborne, BeBe Winans, Amy Grant, Anthony Warlow, to call just a few.
He acquired the celebrated Charles Dickens Award from USC, the place there’s a scholarship below his title and is an Associate Artist on the Alley Theatre in Houston.
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