"Vienna in Rose Glory": 25th Festival of the Viennese Song Started
"I am very proud that as a Persian I was able to inspire people for the Viennese song for 25 years," said Nuschin Vossoughi, festival director and principal of the Theater am Spittelberg, at the start of the anniversary edition. She recalled the beginnings at the concert café Schmid Hansl. Singer Tini Kainrath, who opened the evening and the festival as Hollatrio together with Marie-Theres Stickler on the accordion and Maria Stippich on the contraguitar, was already there in 2001.
From Karl Hodina to Ray Charles
Immediately, one was in the midst of the action and also at the roots from which many new shoots of the Rosenstolz bush have sprouted in recent years. Songs by Karl Hodina or the master yodeler Trude Maly were performed, as well as set texts by H.C. Artmann, the Christine-Jones adaptation of a Ray Charles song, or the attempt at a Viennese song by the Brazilian Alegre Corrêa.
"Is scho wieder ana deppert wuan" could have well set the theme of the evening as a hymn to the typical Viennese grumble, but instead - pure coincidence or clever dramaturgy? - the Viennese laundry provided the (freshly washed) red thread: After the Hollatrio had already presented washerwomen's songs before the break, all three formations united to form the self-proclaimed "supergroup of Viennese music" called Strudel - namely Agnes Palmisano & Daniel Fuchsberger, Wiener Blond and the Gebrüder - each presented a washing machine song.
"Vienna in Rosenstolz": Songs About Fatty Acids and Fruit Puree
Palmisano repeatedly stepped in for the ailing Verena Doublier of Wiener Blond, and together they completed a best-of set that proved that no topic would be too obscure to be turned into a sly, melancholic, or tongue-in-cheek Viennese song, from washing machines in gentle and spin cycles to unsaturated fatty acids to the essential fruit puree.
But of course, familiar tunes were also heard, such as the "Post-Lamento" by Wiener Blond (with the insistently intoned refrain lines "tiring and dull" and "wearing and boring" by Sebastian Radon), or the classic "Hättma, Kenntma (Mochma oba net)" presented inimitably by Andreas Putz and accompanied by Roland Guggenbichler on the accordion. Because Vienna "is a beautiful city, if not for living, then at least for dying," as Agnes Palmisano explained, death naturally made an appearance. For farewell, there was something nourishing to take along: the Mannerschnittenpackerlsong by the Gebrüder.
25th Festival of the Viennese Song: Concerts Until the End of the Month
On Thursday, the festival continues with Ernst Molden and Hannes Wirth, on Friday with Gunkl and Breinschmid, and on Saturday with Marie-Theres Stickler, Rudi Koschelu, and the Hojsa family band. Concerts are scheduled almost daily until the end of the month. The stylistic range extends from 5/8erl in Ehr'n to Nino aus Wien and from Roland Neuwirth to the a cappella ensemble Gustav sounds.
(APA/Red.)
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