Music students play for hospital patients – wien.ORF.at

Usually the students and graduates of the University of Music and Performing Arts play a lot of concerts during the Christmas season, but this year it is canceled in front of a live audience due to the CoV pandemic. Instead, it was played in front of cameras.

“It’s different, but all the same with all the cameras and recording devices, it’s definitely a concert feeling,” said Nadja Stieger, who studies cello. “If you then also have the thought that it is probably sick people who are in the clinic, then that will certainly give you the momentum to pick them up or carry them away,” says pianist Maria Kaszina.

“Time is very difficult for everyone”

A wide variety of pieces were played and recorded for three days. “We also have solo contributions from interesting instruments such as the oboe or harp. We have chamber music, a string quartet, a saxophone quartet and a brass quartet, ”said Johannes Meissl, Vice Rector of the University of Music and Performing Arts.

The finished concert can now be seen at the bedside of the Floridsdorf Clinic. “The time is very difficult for everyone, the patients cannot receive visitors. This is really very depressing, especially for the Christmas season, “says the administrative director of the Floridsdorf Clinic, Agnes Frey.

“A little present” for the patients

Every bed in the Floridsdorf Clinic has a modern entertainment system. The concert can be played here by all patients around Christmas time. “It’s a greeting to the patients. That we think of them and prepare something. So a little present for her, ”says Frey. So that Christmas in the hospital is a little more atmospheric this year even without a visit.

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