Mnozil Brass

Description

Strau$$ – A Dance Between the Chairs
That the waltz-drunk "Duidu, Duidu" and its relaxed counterpart "Dudidubidu" are actually just a stone's throw away from each other, not much more than "a warm embracing dance away" – the masters of Mnozil Brass have known this for ages. For more than thirty years, the seven virtuosos have effortlessly zigzagged between Johann Strauss and Frank Sinatra, between Shostakovich and Prince, or passionately from Schubert to their chosen relatives from Queen. The solemn grandeur of one side concerns them as little as the supposed banality of the other. But Strauss – who was fervently admired by Brahms, Wagner, Verdi, as well as the craftsmen and the girls from the suburbs (and even a Gershwin) – was the founding father of nonchalant dancing between the chairs. Strauss was the first to produce hits by the dozen, he hired an arranger to work faster, and he understood that he could reproduce his sound worldwide with his brothers. He was the first to blur the lines between high and low culture and became a mass phenomenon as the waltz king – never had the cash registers rung sweeter. In Strau$$, Mnozil Brass now reveals everything about Strau$$. Even the last bit. In the end, nothing remains but the naked truth.