Mnozil Brass - Strauss - A Little 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" – this has been clear to the masters of Mnozil Brass 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 leaped from Schubert to their kindred spirits in Queen. They care little for the solemn grandeur of one side as well as the supposed banality of the other. But Strauss – whom Brahms, Wagner, and Verdi, as well as the craftsmen and the girls from the suburbs (and even a Gershwin) fervently admired – was the founding father of the nonchalant frolicking between genres. 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 before did the cash registers ring so sweetly. In Strau$$, Mnozil Brass now reveals everything about Strau$$. Even the last bit. In the end, all that remains is the naked truth. A project commissioned by Johann Strauss 2025 Vienna.