Vienna’s Stephansdom has a woman conductor, a Jewish composer and an Arab soloist
OrchestrasThe Vienna Symphony’s Advent concerts in St Stephen’s Cathedral include:
On December 7, the Vienna Symphony Orchestra invites you to “Vienna Advent” in St. Stephen’s Cathedral… The first guest conductor of the Vienna Symphony Orchestra, Marie Jacquot, leading the evening and will also focus on the works of Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy, who will be represented, among other things, with excerpts from his “St Paul” oratorio.
On December 17, the Vienna Symphony Orchestra’s Advent program will include soprano Fatma Said, tenor Jonathan Tetelman, organist Robert Kovács, Otmar Gaiswinkler on the Alphorn and the Singverein of the Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde.
Happy days.
Sounds good…. or is there an implied problem? the obsession with gender and race/religion which is found sometimes on this site might indicate there is a problem. Let the trolling begin.
Aha! You must be one of the younger readers who haven’t run into any of these problems but they certainly exist unfortunately and we like to hear victories some women have had in music so calm down sir or madam
The Ukrainian composer is missing…
I am wondering…Is this supposed to be the current fashionable guarantee of musical high quality perfromance and artistic achievements? By putting all the politically correct “right colors and flags” to each other and we we are supposed to arrive with the best artistic product? I am puzzled, but perhaps I am just the only weird one today…
These are all accomplished artists. I don’t think any of them were actually selected for their ethnicity, religion, or gender.
Just don’t go the concert if it bothers you that much.
Are you assuming that diversity automatically means a lack of quality? Do you object to Mendelssohn? Is he not of sufficient “musical high quality” for you? Why are you reducing three artists – counting Mendelssohn – to “colors and flags”?
If thought of as opportunity then assess the outcome. The rest is noise.
That’s great news. Well done everyone!!
A woman conductor, a Jewish composer, and an Arab soloist walk into a bar . . . (Insert punchline here.)
Finem lauda.
Ticks all the boxes – but is it art?
Which one do you object to, specifically?
Who knew that Mendelssohn – who died in 1847 and has been programmed consistently ever since – was the epitome of 21st century wokeness…
There seems only to be one concert, on 7 December.
Fatma Said is Egyptian (not Arab); Jonathan Tetelman is American, born in Chile; Robert Kovacs was born in Hungary; Marie Jacquot is French; Otmar Gaiswinkler is Austrian.
What exactly is the relevance of all this?