Concert in the Bar: JELENA POPRŽAN QUARTETT

What's it about?

Jelena Popržan reinvents herself once again – and yet remains true to herself. The charismatic and vocally nuanced viola player, singer, and sound artist from Vojvodina (Serbia), who has injected some vitality into the local music scene with ensembles like Catch-Pop String-Strong, Sormeh, and Madame Baheux, now presents a new project and a new team after her highly acclaimed solo program “La Folia”.In a booklet from the Theodor Kramer Gesellschaft, she discovered the poems of the Polish-Viennese poet Tamar Radzyner (1927–1991) and was deeply impressed. The Polish Jew, who was active in 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 dedicates a musical monument to her with a song cycle. However, the larger part of the program consists of her brand-new...

Where?

Kunsthaus Nexus
Am Postplatz 1

Organiser: Kunsthaus Nexus