THE MUSIC CRITIC
With John Malkovich
Written & Conceived by Aleksey Igudesman
Next performance:
Wiener Konzerthaus, March 7th 2020 - [ Ссылка ]
Music by Mozart, Beethoven, Brahms, Chopin, Debussy, Kanchelli, Prokofiev, Schumann and Igudesman.
Texts from notorious music critics through the centuaries.
Sources:
Nicolas Slonimsky: Lexicon of Musical Invective; Critical Assaults of Composers Since Beethoven’s Time. (2000), W.W. Norton & Company, London-New York
The Internet
Private Collection of his own bad critics of Giya Kanchelli
Additional Translation and texts:
Sabina Hasanova, Aleksey Igudesman, Hyung-ki Joo
Schumann fancies himself a "composer", while Brahms is a "giftless bastard". And Claude Debussy is simply ugly. Igudesman creates a sardonic mix of the most evil music critiques of the last centuries written about some of the greatest works of music. Equipped with a frivolous potpourri of musical insults, John Malkovich slips into the role of the evil critic who believes the music of Beethoven, Chopin, Prokofiev and the likes to be weary and dreary. Julian Rachlin, Aleksey Igudesman, Hung-ki Joo and other great musicians beg to differ and fight back. The grand finale is "The Malkovich Torment", a horrific review about Malkovich himself, which Igudesman has set to music in a uniquely sardonically humorous way.
www.alekseyigudesman.com
Filmed and edited by Sebastian Leitner
