The Comedian Harmonists - Strauss: Perpetuum Mobile
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- Опубликовано: 15 сен 2024
- Recorded in 1932.
The Comedian Harmonists were an internationally famous, all-male German close harmony ensemble that performed between 1928 and 1934 as one of the most successful musical groups in Europe before World War II.
The members of the group were:
Ari Leschnikoff (1897--1978), first tenor
Erich A. Collin (1899--1961), second tenor
Harry Frommermann (1906--1975), Tenor buffo
Roman Cycowski (1901--1998), Baritone
Robert Biberti (1902--1985), Bass
Erwin Bootz (1907--1982), Pianist
The hallmark of the Comedian Harmonists was its members' ability to blend their voices together so that the individual singers could appear and disappear back into the vocal texture. Its repertoire was wide, ranging from the folk and classical songs arranged by Frommermann to appealing and witty popular songs of the day by writers such as Peter Igelhoff, Werner Richard Heymann and Paul Abraham (composer).
In 1927, unemployed actor Harry Frommermann was inspired by The Revelers, a jazz-influenced popular vocal group from the United States, to create a German group of the same format. Frommermann held auditions in his flat on Stubenrauchstraße 47 in Berlin-Friedenau, and, once the group was assembled, it quickly began rehearsals. After some initial failures, the Harmonists soon found success, becoming popular throughout Europe, visiting the United States, and appearing in 21 films.
The group's success continued into the early 1930s, but eventually ran into trouble with the Nazi regime: three of the group members -- Frommermann, Collin, and Cycowski -- were either Jewish or of Jewish descent, and Bootz had married a Jewish woman. The Nazis progressively made the group's professional life more difficult, initially banning pieces by Jewish composers, and finally prohibiting them from performing in public. The group's last concert in Germany was in Hannover on March 25, 1934.
Frommermann, Cycowski, and Collin subsequently fled Germany and formed a new group, which performed under the names "Comedian Harmonists" and "Comedy Harmonists" with a new pianist, bass, and high tenor. The remaining members in Germany likewise replaced their counterparts in a successor group named "Das Meistersextett" (as the authorities forbade an English-language name). Neither group was able to achieve the original success of the Comedian Harmonists, with the German group stifled by political in-fighting and heavy censorship, as well as the war draft (call-up); the emigrant group was unable to find work in America due to hostility to German entertainers, and they were unable to return to Australia, where they had enjoyed extensive success in the 1930s. The Bulgarian Asparuh Leschnikoff /Leshnikov/ returned to his fatherland in 1938 and started a successful career. By 1941, both groups had broken up. Although all members survived the war, they never re-formed after the war.
The group remained largely forgotten until filmmaker Eberhard Fechner created a four-hour black-and-white television documentary, in which he interviewed the surviving members, who were scattered throughout the world. The documentary aired over two nights in German in 1975 and caused a resurgence of interest in the music of the Comedian Harmonists, with their records being released on vinyl.
They won recognition from the musical entertainment industry in 1998 when they won the Echo Prize from the Deutsche Phonoakademie. They were also the subject of an award winning 1997 movie titled 'The Harmonists'.
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Kingdom Hearts Birth By Sleep is a videogame in the Kingdom Hearts franchise, which features characters from the general Disney canon and from Square Enix's Final Fantasy series. It's notorious for its cheesy acting and situations, its overcomplicated plot, and its unexplainable charm.
Said video is a video summary of Birth By Sleep, the first chronological game at the time of the video's release, with some light mockery at some of the game's and the series' more absurd elements, like the aftermentioned overcomplicated plot or the extremely blatant "evil" design for the main villain. It uses both in-game voice clips and text-to-speech, and some of them have become memes. Thus,
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I guess there are a number of Strausses. Thank you for clarifying. They are like a much better version of the Swingle Singers.
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