New York Times mention of the Chumir events on Vienna's history and legacy of the past 150 years.

"With the technical level of orchestras rising overall in recent decades, we are almost accustomed to hearing precise, incisive performances of Beethoven’s formidable Ninth Symphony. Yet, on Tuesday night, for the first concert of Carnegie Hall’s ambitious three-week festival Vienna: City of Dreams, the conductor Franz Welser-Möst led the illustrious Vienna Philharmonic in an account of Beethoven’s Ninth that had curious moments of shaky playing."

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