When the Vienna Philharmonic finishes its New Year’s concert on the first day of 2021, no one will be in the audience to clap.
Normally, some 50,000 people apply for tickets to the annual tradition. But this year the seats in the frescoed great hall of the Musikverein will be empty for the first time since the event started in 1939, owing to the pandemic.
The orchestra is finding a supportive audience remotely, however. Seven thousand people from up to 90 countries have registered to send audio broadcasts of themselves applauding from their homes.
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