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of year 2011 (July - December)
Have you recently watched the Vrijthof Square via the web cam? You may have noticed the covered exhibits of the culinary festivity: "the Preuvenemint" (the tasting). An article appeared in our daily paper that the Limburg wine importer Erik Sauter introduced a South African wine named "Maastricht" to the restaurant owners. He recommended it as a wonderful dinner wine. The restaurant owners agreed. So, after 300 years the South African "Maastricht" wine will return to its roots. If you happen to visit Maastricht next year, you might easily run into the Cape Town "Maastricht" wine. In 2010 we had an item on our website about this winery. Click here to see it!
Maastricht 2011
We have had a very busy first weekend, but now found time to publish some video reports from Maastricht.
Click here or on the picture to the left to see these reports.
For now we have:
- The dress rehearsal (2 parts).
- The stunning performance of Mirusia as Mary Poppins.
- Highlights of the 2011 concerts.
- The final video of the L1 André Rieu week: rehearsals (in the studios) and preparations for the concert.
- Finally some highlights of the Fan Dinner and Fan Picnic. Click here to see this video
John, one of the translators for this website and the Harmony Parlor gives Andre a high-five when he entered the square last Friday. Click here to see the highlights of the Maastricht 2011 concerts.
Maastricht concerts are over again. Ineke took André back home till next year. Ineke has created a nice background story of the Maastricht 2011 concerts. A peek behind the scenes of what is happening in Maastricht apart from the concerts. Click on the picture to the right to see this page with ‘our story’. Click here to see the photo show accompanying this story.
It’s rehearsal time for André and the JSO. So why not post some musical entertainment as part of our “Just 4 Fun” series.
During a cruise to Norway in May 2011, we saw a performance of the Scottish musical ‘clowns’ Steven Worbey and Kevin Farrell. Normally they make a mess of four hands on one piano. Click on the picture to the right and see them play a piece of music without messing about or so....
Time to explore the “Just 4 Fun” section.
On July 14th, André Rieu Productions BV released a beautiful photo book: “André Rieu, De mens achter het fenomeen” (André Rieu, the person behind the phenomenon), written in Dutch by our most famous photographer Govert de Roos. A lot of fans purchased the book in Maastricht and asked for a translation. John and Ineke worked together on a marathon translation for you to enjoy the covering texts with the photos.
Click on the picture of the book.
André Rieu Productions BV gave us permission to post the translation on our website.
JSO members in their spare time.
Many of the JSO members participate in other musical events when not rehearsing or on tour. We have created a new page on this website, which is dedicated to current and ex JSO members performing away from the JSO environment. Marcel Falize has formed a new percussion group called “Lift -Off”. Frank Steijns travels with his
mobile carillon, Linda Custers and Renate Dirix are members of the medieval rock band “Reïncarnatus”. Carla and Carmen free lance with solo performances. Click on the picture of Marcel and his sons to go see this page.
ALMOST CHRISTMAS!
Winter on a sunny summery day in the Dutch Autumn!
Looks like a contradiction, but on 1- 2 October 2011 it was a reality in Maastricht.
Violinist André Rieu
was recording his Christmas- Special for the German TV.
The Special will be broadcast on December 24th. Click on the picture to the right to see a small reaction of André in RTL Boulevard.
Andre’s 62nd Birthday.
Fans all over the world celebrated Andre’s 62nd birthday in their own unique way. Click on the picture to the left to see the birthday parties of fans in Brazil and Australia and the best wishes from all parts of the world.
DVD FESTWALZER /
AND THE WALTZ GOES ON.
On October 1st, 2011, the German TV station ZDF broadcast a 2.5 hour special called “Vienna, the City of my Dreams” (which is the DVD). The German actress Barbara Wussow guided André through her home town Vienna. Click on the picture to the left to see some of the highlights of this special / DVD.
For the Mexican fans:
André Rieu and the Johann Strauss Orchestra are touring for the second time through Mexico for eight concerts from Oct. 7th to 19th 2011. After Mexico two more concerts in Texas, USA and then back home.
Here two interviews on Mexican TV from 2010 and 2011. (In Spanish and also in English).
To read more newspaper reports, click here for the Harmony Parlor.
In October 2011 André released a CD and a DVD with the same cover, but different music and different names: “Wiener Festwalzer” (German) and “And the waltz goes on” (English). That might be a little confusing. Today Ruud and I received the CD and DVD with the German name.
The CD contains gorgeous music, a must have for André fans! Even three newly composed waltzes are on: two composed by André and Frank Steijns and one composed by Sir Anthony Hopkins.
The DVD contains the entire ZDF special ”Vienna City of my Dreams”.
For more information: click on the picture to the right.
BRAZIL:
The 11th Meeting of the Amigos de Andre Rieu & JSO will be held on Wed. Nov.30 2011, in Porto Alegre - RS - Brazil.
On this day there will be a breakfast at Tiffany Laçador and Restaurant, Avenida Brazil, 1095 - Phone 051 3342-5237.
This meeting was scheduled for that date, taking advantage of the performance on Nov. 29 2011, by CARLA MAFFIOLETTI with the 25th Official Concert Symphony Orchestra of Porto Alegre, at 08:30 PM in the Hall of Acts of UFRGS.
Carla confirmed her presence at our lunch, where we can socialize and talk to her. Lunch will be served at 12:00 PM. We count on your punctuality. Participation must be confirmed no later than Nov. 18th, on Rolf Schulz’ email address: rolf_hs@hotmail.com. Please inform Rolf which event you want to join.
On Saturday October 22nd, 2011, André and the JSO appeared in the Carmen Nebel show, as broadcast by the German ZDF.
This show contained a live wedding (the bride in the audience being unaware of this when the show started). Carmen Nebel asked André after his wedding date. After 36 years, he only remembered the year 1975...... After the wedding, André played a bridal march for the couple.
Elke and Nino Freitag attended the live TV show in Braunschweig, Germany. They loved to see all the business behind such a big live TV broadcast. Elke, thanks for the photos!
Snow at André’s castle
A few weeks ago we reported about the recordings for ZDF taking place at André’s castle. The local Limburg TV station L1 recently aired a few images of this event. Click on the picture to the left to see a brief impression.
This is an interview by Richard Wilkins on Australian TV. He interviews Sir Anthony Hopkins about his life, his waltz and his cooperation with Andre Rieu. Broadcast in the Today show,
October 28th 2011.
NEW FACES IN THE JOHANN STRAUSS ORCHESTRA:
In the Mexico/USA tour (Oct.2011) we spotted a few new faces in the orchestra:
Liset Pennings, flute, Linda Leccese, violin.
Keep an eye on our JSO photo show (click on the link on top of the page).
We’ll try to keep it updated all the time!
On November 8th, 2011, the Dutch broadcast company BNN aired the program: “You should be The One”. In this program, three young promising women are interviewed, one of them being Mirusia Louwerse. Click on the picture to the left to see this nice interview.
André in Space?!
On Tuesday November 15th, 2011 Richard Branson from the Virgin group, visited The Netherlands to promote his (commercial) space project. Guess who already bought a ticket for a space trip? Click on the astronaut to the right to see the interview as shown in the program of RTLBoulevard, Nov. 15th, 2011.
NEWBORN BABIES IN THE JOHANN STRAUSS ORCHESTRA: Oct./Nov. 2011:
Nadedja Diakoff : a son. Nathalie Bolle: a daughter. Lara Meuleman and Leon van Wijk: a son. Congratulations!!
Photos from Carla’s concert in Porte Alegre, Brazil, on November 30th 2011. Click here.
During the months of November and December 2011, André made a few TV appearances in the UK: the Alan Titschmarsh Show, Strictly come Dancing, Channel Five, and Loose Women. Click on the picture to the right to see the videos.
On Tuesday December 13th 2011, André Rieu appeared in the breakfast show “VOLLE KANNE” on the German ZDF television. Andrea Ballschuh interviews André. Here he explains why the Maastricht concert dates are not finalized yet. Click on the picture to the left to see these videos.
MARGARET BRENT
from the UK, won our little fun competition. The exact number of hours we spent (John, Ruud, Ineke all together) on the 30 minutes video translation of the LIVE CHAT, was 19,5 hours. Nobody guessed 19 hours, or 19,5 hours, so we selected the four fans who guessed 20 hours and drew lots. Congratulations Margaret! The Andre Rieu Magazine is on its way to England! In time we’ll translate a few chapters of the Magazine, for the English speaking fans. To read about our little fun contest, click here.
On Monday December 19th, 2011, André was in a LIVE CHAT with Dutch journalist Wilma Nanninga, in his castle. People could post questions to the website. André answered some of them in this interview. Click on the picture to the right to see this interview laced with scenes from the upcoming Christmas special.
Home for Christmas.
The latest Christmas Special by André Rieu and the JSO. Broadcast on Dec. 24th 2011 on German Television, by ZDF.
Click on the picture to the left to see parts of this Special. More can be found on YouTube.
The DVD of this two hours lasting Special will be released in 2012.
On December 28th, 2011 we attended the performance of the percussion group “Lift - Off”.
This group was formed by Marcel Falize, his three sons and some friends, including Ward Vlasveld, Franco Vulcano, Ruud Merx, Lin Jong and Sanne Mestrom. We loved the concert / show! Very different, very unique! In the audience we spotted at least 15 colleagues from JSO and ARP, who came to Heerlen in their Holiday to watch the show.
Click on the picture above to see this stunning performance.