New Year's Day Viennese Gala

The Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra performs a New Year's Day concert of Strauss family waltzes, polkas and marches at Lighthouse, Poole.

The Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Tom Fetherstonhaugh with soprano Claudia Boyle, presents a Viennese gala concert on New Year's Day afternoon. The programme features waltzes, polkas and marches by Johann Strauss II, Josef Strauss and their contemporaries, including the Emperor Waltz, Tik-Tak Polka, Mein Herr Marquis from Die Fledermaus and the Blue Danube Waltz, alongside works by Strauss I, Suppé, Offenbach and Lehár. The concert runs from 3pm to 5pm and forms part of the orchestra's BSO Pops series.