As a lifelong theater buff, visual thinker, performer and (occasionally) actor, I have always felt at home among stage props, costumes, actors and their craft. So it felt natural to try my hand at playwriting. And while I was at it, why not direct it, as well?
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ENTER War of the Romantics! New York City, May 21, 2023
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Following its 2019 Philadelphia premiere and sold-out performances, War of the Romantics goes to NYC to tell the story about a 19th century musical culture war that became political, then personal. Composers, critics and audiences turned against each other in a dispute about tradition vs. progress and the meaning of music itself. Guided by the vibrant, highly entertaining music critic Gerhard Denhoff and his maverick colleague Eduard Hanslick, we take an intimate look at famous composers—not only as brilliant musicians but, above all, as people—imperfect,unvarnished, and profoundly human. Beethoven, Schumann, Chopin, Brahms, Liszt: their music was divine; their lives were anything but.
Filled with history, humor and—as one would expect from the Romantics—drama, this ‘classical musical’ takes the audience on a musical time travel, only better.
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