Begin: 7:00 pm
Break: 7:50 pm
End: 9:10 pm
„La Melodia della Strada“
Saxophone, Clarinet, Flute
Lisa Hofmaninger, Patrick Dunst, Yvonne Moriel, Robert Unterköfler, Ilse Riedler, Florian Bauer
Trumpet, Flügelhorn
Gerhard Ornig, Lorenz Raab, Dominik Fuss
Trombone
Daniel Holzleitner, Alois Eberl, Christina Lachberger
Piano
Philipp Nykrin
Bass
Judith Ferstl, Marc Mezgolits
Drums
Judith Schwarz, Marton Juhasz
Composition and Conducting
Christian Muthspiel
Orjazztra Vienna
For the 25th anniversary of the La Strada Graz Festival, the staged theatre concert La Melodia della Strada was commissioned and first performed in the summer of 2022.
The Süddeutsche Zeitung wrote enthusiastically, “the Orjazztra Vienna presents magnificence, musically and logistically; the Kronenzeitung spoke about an effervescent mixture that celebrates the togetherness of community and individual, of orchestra and soloists.” This new, through-composed programme has a clear theatrical character, revels in a grand orchestral sound in Barock opulence and the fantastic picture worlds of Federico Fellini, and vaguely brings to mind – yet without literally quoting them – the wonderful film compositions of his close companion and important artistic partner Nino Rota.
The fundamental approach of the Orjazztra, that each musician emerges for an extensive, improvised solo as a musical individual from the collective and then returns to that, also reflects a procedure from film: in other words from the public space, a society, group or community and zooming into something very personal, unmistakeable and unique in a human being. May images be created in the mind.