Breaking: Vienna’s New Year’s Day concert is women-only

A new ensemble, La Philharmonica, is putting on an alternative Vienna concert on New Year’s Day, we are informed.

Seven women members of the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra will play works by women composers at 4pm at the Ehrbar Saal.

The featured composers are Leopoldine Blahetka, Constanze Geiger and Mathilde Kralik, with a Johann Strauss waltz thrown in to mark the poor neglected chap’s bicentennial.

The idea for the concert comes from musicologist Irene Suchy, but this must be the first time that women from the Vienna Philharmonic have organised in a manner that may be construed as critical of the orchestra’s male hegemony.

The players are:

Lara Kusztrich, Adela Frasineanu, violins
Ursula Ruppe, viola
Ursula Wex, cello
Andrea Goetsch, clarinet
Sophie Dervaux, bassoon

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