View allAll Photos Tagged sarcasm
Engages sarcasm mode: "My, isn't that Dalek in good condition and that pose that Gareth's in isn't camp in the slightest."
Thursday 17th November 2016 - Wednesday 23rd November 2016
Queen Elisabeth Music Chapel, Waterloo, Belgium
The music of Wozzeck and Lulu is not thinkable without the experience of the Viennese style of music, theatre, philosophy, life. The portrait of a society given by an Operette like Fledermaus is important for the understanding of Alban Berg’s portraits of the social outsider Wozzeck as well as of Lulu, the lady who confuses and blows up the society around herself.
There are many theatrical and musical parallels between Johann Strauß and Alban Berg, from the inspiration by the Wiener Walzer up to the sarcasm of the story, from intoxication to frenzy of individuals and societies. As much as Strauß’ and Lehar’s Operette are describing the feeling of the fin-de-siècle epoch in a light and sparkling way, as intensely is the psychological description of this epoch by Berg leading to its different conclusion: the real ending. The musical parameters, though, are nearly the same.
© M. Cooreman
A CSX AC4400CW and C40-8W lead CSX Q112 east on the IHB and then will take the crossover to the CSX Blue Island Subdivision