July marks the 100th anniversary of the birth of Vienna-born chansonnier Georg Kreisler. He was famous and feared for his black humor. Songs like “Poison Doves” went down in Austrian music history. Today, Friday, at 7.30 p.m., the quintet led by Willi Landl and Michael Hornek will celebrate him musically in the Museum Arbeitswelt.
The Vienna-born American poet, singer and composer Georg Kreisler, who died on November 22, 2011 at the age of 89, was not only biting and sarcastic on stage all his life. Posterity remembers him primarily as a singer and composer. “One writes evil in order to bring about good. There can be no question of evil being who writes like this,” Kreisler once described himself liked, he went somewhere else. Art, language and music were home enough for him. And they were instruments to express his political messages against authority and dictatorship.
The quintet with Nika Zach (vocals), Angelika Hagen (violin, text concept), Michael Hornek (piano), Willi Landl (vocals) and Andi Schreiber (violin, viola) plays hits like “Alles nichttru”, “Everything is not true” in the Museum Arbeitswelt today. Poisoning pigeons” or “The civil servant” in a new version.
Source: Nachrichten
