Both come from different backgrounds: The actor August Zirner has always been a jazz fan and has devoted himself more and more to his passion not only as a speaker but also as a flutist, for example in his program "Diagnose Jazz" with the piggy bank trio. The jazz bassist Sven Faller (known among other things for the Trio Eleven and Le Bang Bang) worked his way into literary storytelling some time ago with "Night Music". Now the two meet...
The interest is great. The jazz pianist Johanna Summer, born in 1995, presents her new album at the Schwere Reiter, which was almost sold out. Two years ago, the musician created a small sensation with her classical overwriting of Schumann. She is now continuing this principle under the title "Resonances" and expanding the circle of composers across epochs and styles. From Bach's three-part Invention No. 11 to Ligeti's Musica Ricercata, she uses hits from the piano literature such as Beethoven's...
The Flower Power Festival wants to turn Munich into a riot of flowers over the next eight months. From February 3rd, the festival invites you to exhibitions, installations, performances, concerts, films, theatre, puppetry, discussion formats, workshops, guided tours, hikes, dance events and many other events, including many for children and families. Art spaces, lecture halls, greenhouses, laboratories, restaurants and cinemas, but also parks, gardens and squares are used.There is a lot to look at, a lot to touch and participate...
The expression "folklore imaginaire" coined by Béla Bartók fitted perfectly with the 1970s from the ARFI- French jazz movement that emerged collectively in Lyon, drawing on their own and other European folk music for their jazz improvisations. Among the co-founders was Louis Sclavis. And even now, at the age of 69, the woodwind player from Lyon, who focuses on bass clarinet, is one of the leading instrumental adventurers when it comes to bold melody lines. He also proves that with...
With its premiere in September 2022, the "Superbloom" festival exceeded the expectations of the creators. Instead of the hoped-for 40,000 guests, 50,000 came to the colorful pop potpourri in Munich's Olympic Park. Now there was also an award at the most important industry meeting: Superbloom won the "European Festival Awards" in the category "Best New Festival" (first 40,000 Internet users cast their votes, then a specialist jury chose the winner).Festival director Fruzsina Szep, who once won the main prize twice...
At least since the band power plant experimenting with analogue synthesizers has become an integral part of the pop music scene. They are mostly used in the studio, live they are hardly in the foreground. Unlike the Munich duo Umm Block. Klara Rebers and Leoni Klinger use the instrument live against the trend. The result: rave-like beats and spherical sound spaces created by Pink Floyd are influenced as well as by trip-hop and techno. The SZ nominated them for "Band...
Every year, young singers studying at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater present themselves at the four-day "GasangsArt" festival with songs and arias from opera and oratorio. "Fly agaric and other plants" is the motto of the first evening, during which trees and various flowers are sung about, from Handel (including "Ombra mai fu") to Strauss (op. 22). The following day it is about all kinds of celestial bodies between Venus, the sun and the moon, which often occurs in...
If you from Leo Betzl Trioshort LBT talking, one comes at the mention of the Jazz rush big band bad over. After all, all three band members, along with pianist Leo Betzl, bassist Maximilian Hirning and drummer Sebastian Wolfgruber, were regular members of Roman Sladek's troupe for a long time (and still play with her from time to time). And just as the Jazzrausch Bigband found their recipe for success in large-scale access to technoid sounds, LBT quickly became very...
If you from Leo Betzl Trioshort LBT talking, one comes at the mention of the Jazz rush big band bad over. After all, all three band members, along with pianist Leo Betzl, bassist Maximilian Hirning and drummer Sebastian Wolfgruber, were regular members of Roman Sladek's troupe for a long time (and still play with her from time to time). And just as the Jazzrausch Bigband found their recipe for success in large-scale access to technoid sounds, LBT quickly became very...
"African Song Cycle" is somewhat cryptic for Sunday, January 22nd in the schedule of the Theater at the Fraunhofer. Behind it is a solo performance by the South African cellist and singer Thokozani Mhlambi at the Folk Music Days. The 38-year-old, who studied in Stockholm and Cape Town (and has a master's degree in "public culture" and a doctorate in musicology), is actually at home with cross-genre performance and has performed around the world primarily at interdisciplinary festivals and universities...
