Estimated duration
2 h, incl. intermission
Organizer
Stjärnkvällar
Mnozil Brass with yet another insane, spectacular, hilarious, and breathtaking musical performance! This time, they reveal the Waltz King, Johann Strauss!
Mnozil Brass – Strau$$
– the Waltz King Finally Unmasked!
When the seven musicians of Mnozil Brass were tasked with the somewhat solemn mission of creating an entire show to celebrate the 200th birthday of the Johann Strauss d.y. in 2025, they pondered for a moment. Then, they said yes—and did exactly what they always do: whatever they felt like.
The result, of course, is yet another insane, spectacular, hilarious, and above all, breathtaking musical performance. While Strauss was already highly respected and beloved by his composer colleagues and other great artists during his lifetime, Mnozil Brass finally reveals that he was the very first true commercialist in the world of music! Strauss was the first to mass-produce hits, hiring arrangers to work faster and understanding that he could reproduce his sound worldwide alongside his brothers. He was the first to cross the boundary between so-called “serious music” and “entertainment music,” becoming a mass phenomenon as the Waltz King. And never did the cash registers sound so sweet.
In the show Strau$$, Mnozil Brass now pulls down the pants — so to speak — on this phenomenon of a composer, one they themselves, as Austrians, grew up with as part of their musical mother’s milk. In the performance, Strauss is joined by a whole host of other composers who, like him, have carved out a place in the borderland between artistry and commercialism. With effortless ease and their gleaming brass instruments, the seven virtuosos swing back and forth between all the Strausses they can find, from Bruno Mars to Maurice Ravel, or passionately from Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart to Billy Joel. The solemn reverence from one side concerns them as little as the alleged banality from the other.
And we can promise plenty of good laughs, because that’s Mnozil Brass’s specialty.
Warmly welcome to a musical celebration without equal!
Direction & Choreography – Sharon Booth
This performance is a commissioned project for Johann Strauss 2025 Wien.
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