All rights reserved.įeatured visual: Ride of the Valkyries by William T. The NYC performance of War of the Romantics was made possible by the generous support of The Kosciuszko Foundation NYC and produced by Image Makers Productions™, Berwyn, PA, (610) 393-3359. TO CHECK OUT THE WAR OF THE ROMANTICS WEBSITE, CLICK HERE Katarzyna Salwinski, Pianist & Music Director The cast features an award-winning international ensemble of creative artists, actors, and musicians, including two Polish-born artists:Įlla Remmings, Director, Producer & Playwright It’s like musical time travel, only better. One part history, one part music, one part humor, and-as one would expect from the Romantics-plenty of drama, War of the Romantics is richly illustrated with Romantic music that reflects the intense emotions of the era and sheds new light on the composers themselves.īy inviting the audience to travel between past and present, reality and imagination-all on a firm foundation of historical facts-War of the Romantics combines what the audience is experiencing now with what the audiences experienced then. Their music was divine their lives were anything but. Guided by the vibrant, highly entertaining music critic Gerhard Denhoff and his maverick colleague Eduard Hanslick, we get an intimate look at famous composers-not only as brilliant musicians but, above all, as people-imperfect, unvarnished, and profoundly human. ![]() Through an innovative approach that marries theater with music, this ‘classical musical’ transports audiences into the salons and barricades of Vienna, Berlin, Paris, Warsaw, and other major cities. Marked by a vicious war of the words in the press and highly charged public demonstrations in concert halls, it was eerily similar to what we are witnessing today in the form of identity or issue politics. ![]() progress and the meaning of music itself. This most intense creative rupture in music history turned composers, musicians, and audiences against each other in a dispute about tradition vs. War of the Romantics tells the story of a musical culture war in 19th-century Europe that became political, then personal.
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