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Konzert in der Bar: JELENA POPRŽAN QUARTETT
Jelena Popržan is reinventing herself once again – yet remains true to herself. The charismatic and vocally nuanced violist, singer, and sound artist from Vojvodina (Serbia), who has injected some vitality into the local music scene with ensembles such as Catch-Pop String-Strong, Sormeh, and Madame Baheux, is now setting up a new project and a new team following her much-noticed solo program "La Folia."
In a small book by the Theodor Kramer Society, she discovered the poems of the Polish-Viennese poet Tamar Radzyner (1927–1991) and was deeply impressed. The Polish Jew, who was part of the political resistance and survived the Shoah, found a new home in Vienna and in the German language, collaborated with Georg Kreisler and Topsy Küppers, and wrote poems full of cheerful pessimism and bitter wit.
Jelena Popržan pays tribute to her with a musical monument in the form of a song cycle. However, the larger part of the program consists of her brand-new instrumental compositions, pieces full of imaginative soundscapes and melodic stories, with the help of three gifted mainstays of the local jazz scene: Christoph Pepe Auer, Clemens Sainitzer, and her colleague from Madame Baheux: Lina Neuner.
Jelena Popržan – Quinton (5-string viola), voice, composition
Christoph Pepe Auer – clarinet, alto saxophone
Clemens Sainitzer – cello
Lina Neuner – double bass
A musical evening with brand-new instrumental compositions, pieces full of imaginative soundscapes and melodic stories.
In a small book by the Theodor Kramer Society, she discovered the poems of the Polish-Viennese poet Tamar Radzyner (1927–1991) and was deeply impressed. The Polish Jew, who was part of the political resistance and survived the Shoah, found a new home in Vienna and in the German language, collaborated with Georg Kreisler and Topsy Küppers, and wrote poems full of cheerful pessimism and bitter wit.
Jelena Popržan pays tribute to her with a musical monument in the form of a song cycle. However, the larger part of the program consists of her brand-new instrumental compositions, pieces full of imaginative soundscapes and melodic stories, with the help of three gifted mainstays of the local jazz scene: Christoph Pepe Auer, Clemens Sainitzer, and her colleague from Madame Baheux: Lina Neuner.
Jelena Popržan – Quinton (5-string viola), voice, composition
Christoph Pepe Auer – clarinet, alto saxophone
Clemens Sainitzer – cello
Lina Neuner – double bass
A musical evening with brand-new instrumental compositions, pieces full of imaginative soundscapes and melodic stories.
