The New Year’s Concert is an obligatory event and yet, this year, you are taking another step aside!
David Reiland, conductor of the Metz Grand Est National Orchestra : “This year, I chose the theme of 1930s swing, a jazzy color which is that of celebration and carefreeness. For six years, I conducted a parallel between a European capital and imperial Vienna. I had already thought about this program, but it took a little time, because it is quite demanding. »
What do you mean by that?
“We need to have a large number of people to play this program and, as it is a concert, which we play in a decentralized manner, it had to be able to take place everywhere. But we managed to find a compromise by reducing the strings. As I told the musicians, we play for the public and have the chance to hear them play An American in Paris only happens every fifty years! »
Bernstein, Gershwin, Shostakovich, Johann Strauss… Your program requires an intense rhythm. Will you be able to maintain the intensity?
“The public who comes to this concert want to have two intense hours and no down time! He seeks to have the spark, the exception to end the year well and start the next well. »
“If music generates energy, we’ll find it!” »
How has the public influenced you?
“For six years, I have had hundreds of exchanges with the public after these New Year’s concerts. We need a program for the public and for the musicians. It’s a concert where the waltz is king. I like to bring consistency and Viennese gilding so that we have the same thing as at the Musikverein in Vienna, but I also like to renew myself in the first part. If music generates energy, we will find it! »
This year again you will end your program with Strauss’s “Beautiful Blue Danube”. What will be your state of mind at the end of 2024?
“When you’re a young musician, you tend to get a little too involved physically, to the detriment of being. It’s not about distancing yourself, but about letting the music speak, giving it more space and fluidity. It will be something less symphonic and more organic, because it remains music to dance to! »
At the Metz Arsenal, Friday December 27 and Saturday December 28 at 8 p.m., Sunday December 29 at 4 p.m. Prices: from €8 to €46. The Orchestra will then go on tour on January 3 to Dieuze, on 4 Mancieulles, on 5 in Hombourg-Haut, on 7 in Bitche, on January 8 in Longeville-lès-Metz, on 9 in Sarreguemines and on January 12 in Sarrebruck.
