Name: Articulation
Start: 2026-03-19T19:30:00
Location: Das MuTh

Das MuTh

The world of music is waiting to be explored! So we invite our youngest discoverers to crawl, babble, laugh, listen, sing, play, and dance! Together with music educator Birgit Reithofer, we'll explore music with all our senses right on stage. Let yourselves be swept away and experience the sounds of violin, piano, guitar, or double bass up close. We look forward to making music and discovering together!

Concerts For The Very Youngest

Music from the 60s by Elvis, the Beatles, Louis Prima, Dean Martin, and Paul Anka – reimagined! Their own translations, faithful to the originals, bring the songs to life and make their meanings relatable. "It's Now or Never" becomes "Jetzt oder nie" (Now or Never), Louis Prima's "Gigolo" transforms into "A wüda Bua" (A Wild Boy), instead of "Jackson," we travel to "Sankt Pölten" (St. Pölten) with Johnny Cash, and "La vie en rose" celebrates the good life. These eccentric characters from the Oktoberfest also bring Viennese music: from Bronner's "Gschupftem Ferdl" (Snappy Ferdl) and Hodina's "Kirschen" (Cherries) to Danzer and Heller's "Zigeina" (Gypsy) – charming, quirky, and with a twinkle in their eyes.

Cultural Lunch

The pianist Beatrice Berrut, together with her collaborators Benjamin Herzl, Benedict Mitterbauer, and Matthias Bartolomey, traces the footsteps of Johannes Brahms and his lifelong friend Clara Schumann. "This is yet another who seems to have been sent by God himself!" she noted in her diary when she and her husband Robert first met the young Brahms. The following year, he wrote his first piano trio, which he significantly revised in 1889. His Piano Quartet in G minor, premiered in 1861 with Clara Schumann at the piano, was an immediate success.

Brahms Pur

At the time this concert was being planned, the deranged American president was turning the USA upside down. As an observer, one is torn, since he was given this opportunity through a democratic process. On the other hand, one feels great empathy for all those who now have to worry about their livelihoods.

The Good Ones

The fairy queen Titania, spirits of the night, a singing poet, the peasant couple Mopsa and Corydon, journeymen craftsmen, and many more characters find themselves in the woods on a balmy summer night – chaos is inevitable. But what role does the cunning goblin Puck play in all this?

The Fairy Queen

“I am a Frenchman from the East, a humanist, a rationalist with religion, a Catholic with a Jewish brain, a true revolutionary.” This is how Joseph Roth, the celebrated writer born in 1894 in Eastern Galicia, now Ukraine, characterized himself. Erwin Steinhauer and the Ukrainian accordionist Andrej Serkov conjure up Roth’s literary worlds together. First, with “The Model Pupil,” about an ambitious man who seems to succeed at everything, while laughter and love remain out of his reach. Then with the novella “The Emperor’s Bust,” in which Roth sends Count Morstin into exile through the crumbling monarchy, a situation into which he himself was forced in 1933.

The Showpient & The Empire's Bust

Ode to Nature(Concept: Timotej Kosovinc) is more than a concert – it's a sensory journey and a deeply moving experience. At its heart is nature, our greatest source of inspiration. Yet modern life increasingly alienates us from it, especially in cities where genuine contact has become rare. But when nature becomes tangible again, we realize: it is our origin, full of beauty, power, and diversity. This concert celebrates nature with music and visuals – impressive, moving, and unforgettable.

MUK/tanzt/juniors presents the students of the new Pre-College Dance program and the preparatory dance course at the Music and Arts Private University of the City of Vienna with a diverse program. The choreographies are rehearsed in the classes of Classical Dance and Improvisation, Contemporary Dance, House Dance, Historical Dance, Character Dance, Acrobatics, and Rhythmics, and offer insight into the artistic diversity of the preparatory dance classes at MUK.

MUK/dances/juniors

This year's graduates of the Contemporary and Classical Dance program will present an evening of current, contemporary choreographies at the end of their dance studies at MUK.

Articulation

Only the original instrumentation – and not one of many arrangements. That was the strict requirement of the three musical adventurers, Daniel Ottensamer, Stephan Koncz, and Christoph Traxler. The result is a complete anthology for clarinet trio, from which three pieces were chosen for an exciting journey. It begins with the healing power of bel canto sounds. For after a breakdown in Italy, Vincenzo Bellini enthusiast Mikhail Glinka essentially healed himself with the composition of his Trio pathétique. John Ireland then takes us to Britain's coast, complete with a sea shanty, before we reach the summit with the trio titan Beethoven.

Theclarinet Trio Anthology

TheMartin ListabarthTrio presents inMuThhis new album “In Her FootstepsThe program was inspired by the Viennese world traveler Ida Pfeiffer, who circumnavigated the globe twice solo in the 19th century. Her captivating travelogues form the starting point for a musical exploration brimming with curiosity and a thirst for adventure. The music blends narrative jazz with influences from classical and pop. In sensitive, powerful, and sometimes even tongue-in-cheek compositions, Listabarth tells of early dreams, forbidden love, caravans through the desert, encounters with foreign cultures, and an unquenchable inner drive to discover the world. It's about more than just historical anecdotes: Ida Pfeiffer's life touches on universal themes such as departure, curiosity, disappointment, courage, and overcoming boundaries. Martin Listabarth transforms Ida Pfeiffer's life into a soundtrack for the here and now.

Martin Listabarthtrio

Childhood is a special topic in Japan: how children celebrate and play, what rights and, even more importantly, responsibilities they have, how their daily routine is structured, what rules apply at school, how instruments are taught, what rituals are observed in music lessons, and how music is notated – we explore all of this between the musical pieces. Japanese music cherishes the marimba: Keiko Abe composed "Reflections on Japanese Children's Songs II" for marimba duo. The marimba, as a modern instrument of the 20th century, blends beautifully in a duo with the bamboo flute, the shakuhachi. Marimba and shakuhachi perform a composition by their master, Hosan Yamamoto. Dieter Strehly spent a year in Japan studying the shakuhachi – a bamboo flute – while Gaby Zechmeister mastered the koto, a curved zither. The sound of the koto and shakuhachi together is enchanting, and we demonstrate how it is notated. In Japan, the koto is reverently called O-Koto, and the performance begins with a bow. The Austrian premiere of a duo by Japanese composer Dai Fujikura, "Kodama"—a hymn to tree spirits and ghosts—will be performed!