American pianist Joel Fan joins Ravinia Festival's 2011-2012 Rising Stars series with a concert on Saturday, Nov. 19. Fan has embraced traditional literature as well as an eclectic range of repertoire, including new music commissioned especially for him, world music and his own transcriptions.
Georg Kreislers Lieder sind bitterböse Meisterwerke des Makabren und des rabenschwarzen Humors. Einige der besten Chansons des heute 88-jährigen Wieners - darunter viele „vorletzte Lieder' aus Kreislers gleichnamigem Album - hat nun der Schauspieler Gottfried Breitfuss für sein Bühnenprogramm MESCHUGGE WIE IMMER zusammengestellt, mit dem er am 4. und 5. Mai in der Kammer des Pfauen zu erleben sein wird.
Georg Kreislers Lieder sind bitterböse Meisterwerke des Makabren und des rabenschwarzen Humors. Einige der besten Chansons des heute 88-jährigen Wieners - darunter viele „vorletzte Lieder' aus Kreislers gleichnamigem Album - hat nun der Schauspieler Gottfried Breitfuss für sein Bühnenprogramm MESCHUGGE WIE IMMER zusammengestellt, mit dem er am 4. und 5. Mai in der Kammer des Pfauen zu erleben sein wird.
Georg Kreislers Lieder sind bitterböse Meisterwerke des Makabren und des rabenschwarzen Humors. Einige der besten Chansons des heute 88-jährigen Wieners - darunter viele „vorletzte Lieder' aus Kreislers gleichnamigem Album - hat nun der Schauspieler Gottfried Breitfuss für sein Bühnenprogramm MESCHUGGE WIE IMMER zusammengestellt, mit dem er am 4. und 5. Mai in der Kammer des Pfauen zu erleben sein wird.
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The New Budapest Orpheum Society brings forth more treasures from the archives of 20th-century Jewish popular music on a new CD, 'Jewish Cabaret in Exile' (Cedille Records CDR 90000 110), its second recording for Cedille Records.
From March 13 to 22, The Club at La MaMa E.T.C. will present the U.S. premiere of 'Tonight: Lola Blau,' written and composed by Georg Kreisler, English version by Don White, directed by Dick Top (Holland), featuring Anna Kr?mer (Germany) as Lola. This U.S. premiere is an opportunity for NY audiences to savor one of Europe's 'big little' musicals and its unforgettable holocaust themes. The piece depicts a rising, charismatic, Dietrich-style cabaret singer who is forced to flee Austria because of her Jewish heritage, taking refuge in the U.S. She makes do with 'survival jobs' on Tin Pan Alley until her sensational return to her homeland after the war, when she discovers that nothing much has changed.
From March 13 to 22, The Club at La MaMa E.T.C. will present the U.S. premiere of 'Tonight: Lola Blau,' written and composed by Georg Kreisler, English version by Don White, directed by Dick Top (Holland), featuring Anna Kr?mer (Germany) as Lola. This U.S. premiere is an opportunity for NY audiences to savor one of Europe's 'big little' musicals and its unforgettable holocaust themes. The piece depicts a rising, charismatic, Dietrich-style cabaret singer who is forced to flee Austria because of her Jewish heritage, taking refuge in the U.S. She makes do with 'survival jobs' on Tin Pan Alley until her sensational return to her homeland after the war, when she discovers that nothing much has changed.
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