On the occasion of the celebration of United Nations Day, a concert of classical music will be held at 7:00 pm Tuesday, 24 October 2000 in the General Assembly Hall. The concert, performed by the Vienna Symphony, with Vladimir Fedoseyev conducting, is being presented as a tribute to the Millennium Assembly on the centenial of the Vienna Symphony.

Kofi Annan, Secretary-General of the United Nations, will be present to accept the tribute and deliver his message for United Nations Day. Benita Ferrero-Waldner, Austrian Federal Minister for Foreign Affairs, and Brigitte Ederer, Executive City Counsellor for Finances, Economic Affairs and Public enterprises of the City of Vienna, will also speak. Harri Holkeri, President of the General Assembly, will attend the concert. Also attending is Nane Annan, wife of the Secretary-General.

The concert programme consists of Symphony No. 41 in C Major, K. 551 ("Jupiter") by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, and Symphony No. 9 in E-Flat Major, Op. 70 (1945) by Dmitri Shostakovich.

The Vienna Symphony's concert at the United Nations is organized by the United Nations Department of Public Information and is sponsored by the Austrian Federal Ministry for Foreign Affairs and the City of Vienna, with the special support of the Osterreichische Nationalbank and the Austrian Lotteries.