Overview
- Florence Price’s Rainbow Waltz, originally written for piano, has been specially orchestrated and becomes the concert’s first work by an African-American woman.
- Roughly one third of the selections will be New Year’s Concert debuts curated by first-time conductor Yannick Nézet-Séguin.
- Johann Strauss Sohn’s Diplomaten-Polka is included as a signal of the importance of diplomacy in a divided world.
- The concert will air on 1 January at 11:15 CET on ZDF from the Golden Hall of the Vienna Musikverein, with ORF using 40 microphones and 14 cameras.
- Organizers project a global TV and streaming audience of about 50 million viewers.