Newsletter April 2008
Sound Museum sets new record - a musical Euro 2008
Another success for HAUS DER MUSIK: with almost 16,000 paying visitors in March 2008, we are celebrating our busiest month since the opening of the Sound Museum.
There has also been an enormous demand from schools and so, with immediate effect, we offer two guided tours per day (Monday to Friday). Austria's youth is interested in music - this is a distinctly encouraging sign.
On the subject of courage, Vienna will be playing a key role in the 2008 European Football Championships in June. Austria's national team will have to play with plenty of heart and resolve in order to succeed.
HAUS DER MUSIK will be making its own small contribution to the Euro 2008 euphoria with its special foyer exhibition entitled "16 National Anthems". Listen to the national anthems of the participating countries and learn all about their history and meaning.
We are also pleased to announce another highlight for April. To celebrate the Karajan anniversary year, the Vienna Philharmonic have not only created a special vitrine featuring rare and unique artefacts that are being displayed in public for the first time, we are also showing excerpts of the only New Year's Concert conducted by the Maestro in the concert hall of the Vienna Philharmonic Museum.
 | Music live - rushing crowd "A Life, A Song, A Cigarette" during the concert series "Live on Stage" and Piano Hits for Children with Marko Simsa
Live on Stage - free admission for MemberCard holders - has become a hit at HAUS DER MUSIK: On 17 April, "A Life, A Song, A Cigarette" will perform live. On 18 April, Marko Simsa will inspire dozens of kids with his successful programme "Piano-Hits for Children". |
 | The conductor's magical baton Karajan's baton, previously unpublished letters, photographs and other rarities in the Philharmonic Museum at Haus der Musik
Karajan's baton is just one of the treasured objects collected by the CEO of the Vienna Philharmonic, Clemens Hellsberg, and displayed in the expanded Philharmonic Museum at Haus der Musik. Other items include historical photographs with Eliette, of the Orchestra on world tour and with Indian Prime Minister Pandit Nehru - as well as manuscripts and letters. |
 | Anthems of all nations, unite! "16 National Anthems": a musical presentation of the Euro 2008 participants
The singing of the teams' national anthems is one of football's rituals. It's not only the players on the pitch who sing - or pretend to - but often the spectators in the stands as well. Anthems as a symbol of national pride and national honour. This is the theme to which a fascinating special exhibition in the foyer of Haus der Musik is dedicated, representing an acoustic contribution to the biggest sporting event in Austria's history. |
 | Culture tip of the month: Who will we have been? Slogan and musical highlights of Wiener Festwochen 2008
42 productions, 144 performances and 61 concerts. These raw statistics demonstrate the sheer scale of Wiener Festwochen, one of Europe's largest cultural festivals, which will take place between 9 May and 15 June 2008. The cryptic-sounding slogan represents a reappraisal of both future and past. "We will be examining the present from the perspective of the future. We will be remembering a present and future life and using this memory to make a diagnosis of the future", writes festival director Luc Bondy in his foreword to the 150-page festival programme. |