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Previous Items
of year 2012 (January - June)
In the Privé magazine of February 2012, an article appeared, which looked like an interview with André's younger brother Jean-Philippe named: "The silent sorrow of André Rieu", but it meant to be: "The silent sorrow of Jean-Philippe Rieu". We contacted Mr. J-P. Rieu. He mailed us that he had never given an interview to Privé. Privé took the material from other sources but he confirmed that the contents are correct. He gave us permission to translate and post the article on our website. Click on the photo to the left to read the article.
On Tuesday Feb. 7th, 2012, Kerstin Cornelis announced that André had to cancel five more concerts due to illness. Click on the picture to the right to see this item from RTL Boulevard with an explanation why.
Again bad news about André. He has to postpone seven more concerts in Germany and Switzerland (in total now 17 concerts postponed). He appears to be overworked and requires an additional two weeks of rest. Click on the picture to the left to see the small item of RTL Boulevard on Febr. 23nd 2012.
NEWS (March 1st, 2012)
André is not yet well enough to resume his performances on March 6th as announced last week. The concert tour in France has been postponed until October, clearing André's schedule through April 20th when he will perform again in Odense, Denmark. Click on the picture to the right for the RTL Boulevard item on this new postponement.
Click here to see an L1 interview with André's good friend Jo Cortenraedt (without English subtitles added). Jo just tells what Albert Verlinde summarized in a few words in RTL Boulevard.
For another article from the Limburger Newspaper: click here for the Harmony Parlor.
For new dates of the postponed concerts, check André's website, or click here.
On Sunday March 18th, Gil Sharon will play on André's Stradivari violin of 1667. Gil Sharon is member of the Amati Orchestra. A small orchestra playing on original 17th century instruments.
Click on the picture to the left to learn more about this unique instrument and concert.
The Limburg newspaper of March 8th 2012 published an article about Pierre Colen, who was a viola player in the Johann Strauss Orchestra for eleven years. At the age of 71 he has left the JSO orchestra. Click on the picture to the right to read what he is doing at present.
We like to present to you André's "Funny Faces" Photo show. One day in Maastricht he was in a cheerful and naughty mood, fooling around with fans and their cameras. He was on the steps of the Theater on the Vrijthof, prior to the start of a concert. We took a lot of photos and many fans from all around the world sent us their special photos. This hilarious slide show will give you a good laugh. Click on the photo to the right. Because the "Photo shows" Page contained too many videos, we split them up into three pages. Enjoy!
Dear André. To cheer you up we are sending you an imaginary bouquet of flowers consisting of André Rieu- and Johann Strauss tulips. Late April they will be in full bloom and hopefully you will be fully recovered by then. Get well soon. You are in our thoughts. Ruud and Ineke.
For more get well wishes by fans on our website click in the left menu bar, Get Well Wishes page 1 and 2, and for the Harmony Parlor Get Well Wishes: click here.
BETERSCHAP ANDRE, GET WELL SOON
André has arrived in Sao Paulo for the first 12 concerts!! Silvana and Suely were there to welcome him. Silvana Lucato and Ivone del Bianco Pepe are showing their banner.
Suely Kawana, who lives in Sao Paulo, sent us the picture of the venue.
Brazilian vibrations are felt all over the world! Brazil is happy! Rock on, André!
Excitement in Brazil!
First images from Brazil.
For more news during the concerts in Sao Paulo, please watch the Brazilian fan website:
And the Brazilian fan friends page on Facebook:
Admiradores de André Rieu & JSO.
And of course the Harmony Parlor website and on Facebook:
The André Rieu fan site the Harmony Parlor on Facebook.
Just to break up the silence until April 20th, we'd like to present you a "Golden Oldie". Actually not that old, it hails from 2006, six years ago. It's a Dutch TV program "Profiel" (profile) which sketches André's portrait. Since our website has not started until 2007, we never had the opportunity to post this video. Click on the picture to the left to see this program.
On Thursday April 19th, 2012 André Rieu gave a first -and only- interview to the Dutch program Boulevard about his latest illness and return to the stage. We added on this page also the first reactions of Danish and Swedish fans, who attended the concerts in Odense and Copenhagen. Click on the picture to the right to see this lively interview and to read the reports from Denmark.
On April 21st, 2012, Mirusia conducted an intimate performance for the benefit of SNF, a foundation which collects monies for charity. We were in the city of Waalwijk in the Dutch province of Noord-Brabant, and had a very enjoyable afternoon in a cozy café, owned and operated by two elderly sisters named Leenheers. We were served an exclusive high tea with lots of delicious snacks and sweets.
Mirusia sang several songs which we had never heard before and she told us something about her career beginning at the age of seventeen. We'd like to share our video with you, to which we have added English subtitles. Click on the picture above to see this video.
On April 30th, 2012 (celebration of the Queen's birthday in The Netherlands), André appeared in RTL Boulevard. He looks back to the past months and tells a bit more about his new hobby: Sport.
Click on the picture to the right to see this interview.
On Friday, January 27th 2012,
Maastricht will have the biggest Bell Concert, ever. 250 church bells along with four carillons, a mobile carillon on the Vrijthof Square, and school children with 8000 hand bells, will play together a music piece composed by a few conservatory students. Of course Frank Steijns will play along!! We’ll be there too, and we’ll share the festivities with you on our website! Stay tuned!
Click on the picture to read the full article in the Harmony Parlor.
New Year’s concert
On January 1st 2012 in Cologne (Germany).
In 2012 the Johann Strauss Orchestra will celebrate its 25th birthday. Congratulations!
Click on the picture to the right to read our report.
On Sunday January 15th, 2012, André appeared in the CBS Good Morning Show. Presenter Richard Ross interviews André in his hometown Maastricht.
Click on the picture to the right to see this interview.
Recently found on YouTube by Magda!! We had not seen it before, so we'd like to share it with you. André discusses his career in the comfort of his own Maastricht castle.
The video was produced in 2005 by Paul Larson for "Art Express" - Classic, also featuring the fans Inge Cossette from Montreal (Canada) and Mickey Clarke.
Thank you Magda.
If you are interested in the history of André's castle named "De Torentjes", you can find an interesting page (Fun & Misc. Under Misc.) On Sonja's (sleeping) website www.translations.com. You did a wonderful job, Sonja! We still enjoy it!
Please click here to read the article on Sonja's website.
Inge Cossette commented in Harmony Parlor's Guestbook:
Thank you Ineke for the Video in your website. It was taken Nov. 17, 2OO4 in my home and PBS used it in their Pledge drive in 2OO5 and 2OO6 a lot. I remember how I felt like a grilled tomato under those hot lights. But it is a nice souvenir. Inge.
Entia, from South Africa, offered to do some translations for us. Her native languages are English and Afrikaans. Afrikaans is the third most spoken mother tongue in SA. It is a derivative of Dutch and originated in the 17th century after Dutch settlers colonized SA. That's why Entia can understand Dutch and we can understand Afrikaans! Click here to read her first translations from the AR Magazine. Entia makes John’s and our job a little lighter! Thank you Entia!
We’d like to introduce Entia!
A wonderful André Rieu Magazine, released on December 17th 2011.
It is only in Dutch language. 180 pages, 305 photos. Awesome! You can order the Magazine in
For the German speaking fans: Kathi translated chapters to German, click here.
We translated a few chapters to English for you, with the assistance of John: please click on the picture to the right. We'd like to announce that we added a new translator: Entia from South Africa. Welcome Entia!
New translation from the Andre Rieu Magazine, page 91.
By Entia.
It's a very interesting chapter about the maintenance of André's Stradivari, by the Viennese expert Marcel Richters. We were amazed to read about the cleaning with....rice grains! Click on the picture to read the article.
The Harmony parlor posted another chapter about Govert de Roos' photography. Click here for the Harmony Parlor.
On January 27th 2012 Maastricht celebrated the 50 anniversary of the Maastricht conservatory. All Maastricht carillons and church bells played along with school children who were on the Vrijthof square with hand bells. Frank Steijns played the "Paltz", the biggest Dutch mobile carillon built on a truck, which comes from the town of Soest in the Netherlands.
Click on the picture to read more about this event.
