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Closeness & distance: Friedrich Cerha's evocation of Viennese traditional music in a new version for Viennese Schrammel quartet
Friedrich Cerha: Keintate I, II (parts); Holger Falk, Attensam Quartett (Annette Bik & Gunde Jäch-Micko, violins, Ingrid Eder, button accordion, Michael Öttl, contra-guitar); KairosReviewed 24 June 2022 (★★★★)An amazing discovery, Cerha's 1980s work evoking the Viennese traditional music of his youth, reworked for a traditional ensemble, displaying great affection yet also a certain distance and in superb performancesWhen I first came across this recording I wondered what kind of instrument a Schrammel was! Luckily, the booklet explains, "a Viennese Schrammel Quartet owes its name to its name to the brothers Johann and Josef Schrammel, who became Vienna's musical calling card at the end of the 19th century alongside Johann Strauss and his waltzes. In memory of the legendary 'Schrammeln', their name became synonymous with exactly this line-up, in which polkas, marches, dances and waltzes were played in Vienna – and are still played". So we have two violins, Viennese button accordion and Viennese contra guitar, and the Attensam […]
2015-02-25 09:05:51
originally published in the Jewish Daily Forward. On a freezing January evening, a large crowd gathered to watch as three stolpersteine were hammered into the sidewalk outside the Komische Oper Berlin. These brass stones commemorate victims — mostly, but not all, Jewish — of Nazi persecution. The plaques laid in front of the opera commemorated Jews who were involved there before the war: Fritz Spira was an actor and singer killed in the Ruma concentration camp; the concertmaster Kuba Reichmann went into exile and survived; Hans Walter Schapira, who worked in the library and the box office, was a victim of the Nazis’ euthanasia program T4. Stolpersteine are usually placed by buildings where those who were exiled or murdered used to live. By laying these three stones out in front of opera house, the Komische Oper was drawing attention to the crucial role that Jews played at Europe’s leading operetta […]
2015-01-10 22:46:55
The De Brouckere Brussels Grill is so much smaller than the Rogier Brussels Grill but also seems more empty as well. Maybe that’s because the Rogier restaurant is bordered by so many large hotels—the Thon, the Sheraton, the Hilton, whereas Brouckere only really has the Metropol. Always interesting to remember that the Gare du Nord used to be here at Rogier, when it was the northern-most edge of Brussels; but as the city expanded, they had to move the Nord station a few hundred metres further north. I still like to imagine the Nord Station is here though. There we go. I like second hand bookshops more than new bookshops; I like old crackly classical music recordings from the 20s more than new ones; I like old 20s and 30s jazz more than the sleek new jazz; like old curtain-opening strip clubs more than the new private dancing men-as-cash machines […]
2014-10-27 16:58:16
Looking for Art Nouveau while travelling
I am so fascinated by that style very modern a hundred years ago in Europe. At that time they believed that wars were not necessary after a quite long calm period! The beautiful époque thrived on that idea. I have found buildings and decorations in that style in London, Prague and Paris. We even have a few buildings in Copenhagen of the style. It´s possible also to find creations from the style at design museums, but I find it more alive to just look around in the streets. Our famous Danish silversmith Georg Jensen made a series of jewels in the beginning of the twentieth century. #gallery-358-6 { margin: auto; } #gallery-358-6 .gallery-item { float: left; margin-top: 10px; text-align: center; width: 33%; } #gallery-358-6 img { border: 2px solid #cfcfcf; } #gallery-358-6 .gallery-caption { margin-left: 0; } /* see gallery_shortcode() in wp-includes/media.php */ […]
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