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CINEMA & COMEDY: The Rise and Fall of the Classical Musician
Concept: Gidon Kremer, Aleksey Igudesman, Richard Hyung-ki Joo
Written by: Igudesman & Joo with additional texts by Gidon Kremer and Nadja Maleh
Director: Nadja Maleh
Produced by: Kremer, Igudesman & Joo
Without music life would be a mistake.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Dear Concertgoer!
Music and humor—both are languages of the emotions. Tonights program is an attempt at dialogue. Join us on a journey through our wacky hall of mirrors and see for yourself all the weird and wonderful ways these two languages come together to reflect the Zeitgeist of the new millennium.
Not for nothing is the title of this show Cinema and Comedy.
Cinema—because a lot of the music we perform today has been featured in well-known (and less well-known) films.
Comedy—because the universal language of music avails itself of humor to convey truths that defy more conventional forms of expression.
Comedy starts where the tools of tragedy fall short. Tonight is not going to be a night of mere entertainment. You might laugh until you pee your pants, so to speak, but issues of the gravest significance underlie all our priceless wit. One glance at our subtitle, and you will see just how much is at stake: The Rise and Fall of the Classical Musician.
This evenings protagonist, Gidon Kremer, is such an example of the classical musician. His real-life experiences serve as our inspiration, his writings as our starting point. Some parts of the show are biographical, other parts are the product of imaginative sympathizing and/or pure invention.
We live in an age in which the market economy tyrannizes over art. The quality of an artwork is judged by the quantity of sales. We all squint at the sales-volume statistics, the chart placement and the commercial media presence. The more popular, the better everyone wants to be a superstar!
But in consequence, we all too often lose sight of the true meaning of music: the uplifting union of feeling and intellect, the intimate and profoundly emotional expression of the soul.
Cinema and Comedy takes a critical and entertaining look at classical music through a magnifying glass. By means of this close-up, we hope to achieve a healthy distance from all forms of commercial dumbing-down.
So lets laugh together about whats laughable tonight, and marvel afresh at musics endless marvels!
We wish you a wonderful musical journey!
We, meaning Gidon Kremer and the Kremerata Baltica, Aleksey Igudesman and Richard Hyung-ki Joo.
Music in its most beautiful form is the all-healing language of love.
Richard Wagner
These are among the composers whose masterpieces, or bits of them, you will hear this evening:
Bach, Mozart, Beethoven, Rota, Dunayevsky, Herrmann, Morricone, Miller, Chaplin, Schnittke, Schostakowitsch, Barber, Piazzolla, Igudesman, Joo, Barry, Lai, Wagner, Brahms, Berg, Pushkarev, Perren, Fekaris, Gaynor and many more
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samuwise favorited a video
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To see upcoming performances of Igudesman & Joo visit our website ww...
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To see upcoming performances of Igudesman & Joo visit our website www.igudesmanandjoo.com
CINEMA & COMEDY: The Rise and Fall of the Classical Musician
Concept: Gidon Kremer, Aleksey Igudesman, Richard Hyung-ki Joo
Written by: Igudesman & Joo with additional texts by Gidon Kremer and Nadja Maleh
Director: Nadja Maleh
Produced by: Kremer, Igudesman & Joo
Without music life would be a mistake.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Dear Concertgoer!
Music and humor—both are languages of the emotions. Tonights program is an attempt at dialogue. Join us on a journey through our wacky hall of mirrors and see for yourself all the weird and wonderful ways these two languages come together to reflect the Zeitgeist of the new millennium.
Not for nothing is the title of this show Cinema and Comedy.
Cinema—because a lot of the music we perform today has been featured in well-known (and less well-known) films.
Comedy—because the universal language of music avails itself of humor to convey truths that defy more conventional forms of expression.
Comedy starts where the tools of tragedy fall short. Tonight is not going to be a night of mere entertainment. You might laugh until you pee your pants, so to speak, but issues of the gravest significance underlie all our priceless wit. One glance at our subtitle, and you will see just how much is at stake: The Rise and Fall of the Classical Musician.
This evenings protagonist, Gidon Kremer, is such an example of the classical musician. His real-life experiences serve as our inspiration, his writings as our starting point. Some parts of the show are biographical, other parts are the product of imaginative sympathizing and/or pure invention.
We live in an age in which the market economy tyrannizes over art. The quality of an artwork is judged by the quantity of sales. We all squint at the sales-volume statistics, the chart placement and the commercial media presence. The more popular, the better everyone wants to be a superstar!
But in consequence, we all too often lose sight of the true meaning of music: the uplifting union of feeling and intellect, the intimate and profoundly emotional expression of the soul.
Cinema and Comedy takes a critical and entertaining look at classical music through a magnifying glass. By means of this close-up, we hope to achieve a healthy distance from all forms of commercial dumbing-down.
So lets laugh together about whats laughable tonight, and marvel afresh at musics endless marvels!
We wish you a wonderful musical journey!
We, meaning Gidon Kremer and the Kremerata Baltica, Aleksey Igudesman and Richard Hyung-ki Joo.
Music in its most beautiful form is the all-healing language of love.
Richard Wagner
These are among the composers whose masterpieces, or bits of them, you will hear this evening:
Bach, Mozart, Beethoven, Rota, Dunayevsky, Herrmann, Morricone, Miller, Chaplin, Schnittke, Schostakowitsch, Barber, Piazzolla, Igudesman, Joo, Barry, Lai, Wagner, Brahms, Berg, Pushkarev, Perren, Fekaris, Gaynor and many more...
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