The Sunday Conversation With Andre Rieu
The Dutch conductor chooses performance pieces for his Johan Strauss Orchestra that move him. 'I know when it speaks to my heart, it will speak to the heart of the people,' he says.
The Sunday Conversation: With Andre Rieu
By Irene Lacher, Special to the Los Angeles Times
November 28, 2010
Dutch violinist and conductor André Rieu, 61, and his Johann Strauss Orchestra have been so popular with lovers of the greatest hits of all musical genres that they drew a record-breaking 38,000 people in 2008 to an Australian concert with a life-size reproduction of Vienna's Schönbrunn Palace, two ice-skating rinks, two fountains and a ballroom dance floor. He brings a much simpler holiday concert to the Nokia Theatre at L.A. Live on Dec. 3.
What are you doing for your holiday show?
I'm bringing a program I think the people will love. I make programs always with my heart. People ask me how do you choose your pieces? It's very simple. I choose only the pieces that speak to my heart, and I know when it speaks to my heart, it will speak to the heart of the people.
Well...I know for a fact that Andre's music speaks to MY heart!
I cannot wait to hear Andre again in Seattle in exactly 10 days!
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The music definately gets to my heart and stays there forever, it is SOOO beautiful, how could you live without it.
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Wishing that PBS puts more of Andres' program on . They never show his Christmas in San Diego, California show. I've seen it in person and would love to see it again on the PBS network. Please try to get this to happen.
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