Mozart's Hidden Kitchen & The Tables of New Crowned Hope
Series: Hidden Kitchens
From: The Kitchen Sisters
Length: 00:06:55
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Imagine a Mozart Festival without a note of Mozart. Instead, more than 60 artists from around the world were invited to Vienna by director Peter Sellars and asked to pick up where the musical and social visionary left off, to create new works of art. The festival, called "New Crowned Hope," in honor of the free-thinking Masonic Lodge in Vienna of which Mozart was a member, was a month-long, one-of-a-kind, genre-spanning event linking agriculture and culture, with food at its heart. It featured a Maori dance troupe; a Venezuelan street chorus singing a new opera by John Adams; new films from Chad, Iran and Paraguay; Mark Morris' dance company; Chez Panisse founder and culinary activist Alice Waters; lunch ladies from across Europe; and farmers, chefs and seed-savers from throughout Austria. On the eve of Mozart's 251st birthday, The Kitchen Sisters take us to Vienna, to "Mozart's Hidden Kitchen and the Tables of New Crowned Hope."
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Review of Mozart's Hidden Kitchen & The Tables of New Crowned HopeIn this funny, offbeat celebration produced one day before Mozart's 251st birthday, the Kitchen Sisters take us to Vienna for the New Crowned Hope Festival. Wolfgang meets Weisswurst and a dozen other delicacies as restaurateur Alice Waters all but croons about sustainable tables at Chez Panisse and director Peter Sellars drones about how agriculture and culture come together. At times the piece seems to get out of hand as when, say, a "dinner lady" who used to prepare food at a school in Nottinghamshire recalls serving her students such gag-me-with-a-spoon dishes as "turkey twizzler," "chicken teddies," and "pork hippo" -- "the stench was dreadful." But if the eccentricities of the festival participants sometimes go "over the top," the dulcet tones of Mozart's Eine Kleine Nachtmusik and the slow movement of his 21st Piano Concerto in the background bring everything into transcendent focus. If music be the food of love, play on! |
Broadcast History
Morning Edition, January 26, 2007
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Intro: This weekend in Austria the year-long commemoration of Mozart's 250th birthday comes to a close. Among the country's many celebrations was a visionary festival produced by theater director Peter Sellars. Tucked into his month of new operas and avant garde art installations was an unconventional look at the Future of Food. On the eve of Mozart's 251st birthday The Kitchen Sisters take us to Vienna, to "Mozart?s Hidden Kitchen and The Tables of New Crowned Hope."
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Review of Mozart's Hidden Kitchen & The Tables of New Crowned Hope
The Kitchen Sisters have triumphed again with this highly listenable piece about a celebration in Vienna of the 250th birthday of Mozart through food. It's a delightful smorgasbord of sound, impeccably mixed and perfectly edited. Music, narration, and interviews with celebrity festival goers, including Alice Waters, owner of Chez Panise restaurant in Berkeley, combine to create a magical medley of food and music. Bravo!