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!
In 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!
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This piece belongs to the series "Hidden Kitchens"
Produced by The Kitchen Sisters (Nikki Silva & Davia Nelson)
Other pieces by The Kitchen Sisters
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Phil Corriveau
Posted on February 25, 2007 at 11:12 AM | Permalink
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!
James Reiss
Posted on February 21, 2007 at 02:26 PM | Permalink
Review of Mozart's Hidden Kitchen & The Tables of New Crowned Hope
In 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!