Olga Neuwirth: Die Stadt ohne Juden

MUSIC / PERFORMANCE
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 2021
8:00 PM

Talea Ensemble
DiMenna Center
450 West 37th Street, Hell's Kitchen, Manhattan

$20; $10 students/seniors
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/olga-neuwirth-die-stadt-ohne-juden-us-premiere-tickets-167877607443

See what I'm saying? For four years I've been dying to hear the score (played along with a screening of the film) that the Austrian composer Olga Neuwirth — who kind of does the same pop-into-classical thing our Brooklyn composers do, except in Neuwirth's case the pop is taken into European High Modernism rather than Post-Minimalism — wrote for the 1924 Austrian expressionist dystopian (heh: what did they know?) satire about what Vienna would be like if it expelled its Jewish population (it doesn't turn out well for Vienna) ("expelled": note that they couldn't even envision that the Jewish population would ever be exterminated). (Dystopian satire! I'm laughing so hard I'm going to die — just like the author of the novel the film was based on did, not to mention my entire Austrian family.) So now this is finally being given in New York — on the SAME NIGHT that EVERYTHING ELSE IS HAPPENING.

MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: All I can do is send you way Downtown for Austrian at Schilling, where you should just be able to make the last seating.