The House of Music is a fun, hands-on museum with creative exhibits that pay homage to Vienna’s musical history. For example, there are piano keys set into a staircase that play as you walk up and ...

Beethoven’s Septet is chamber music that almost sounds like a mini orchestra. Instead of the usual string quartet, Beethoven wrote for a colorful mix of strings and winds, giving the music a bigger, ...

Before the first note rang in Zellerbach Hall, patrons snapped photos of empty chairs and stands soon to be filled by the world-renowned Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Grammy ...

The ever-popular annual New Year’s Day Concert will be performed by the Vienna Philharmonic under the baton of Christian Thielemann. With this concert it is not only the desire of the Vienna ...

While many cultures revel in ringing out the old year, leave it to the 19th-century’s Austro-Hungarian empire to set a European standard on how to do it right. In Vienna’s famous Neujahrskonzert (New ...