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1. Read the headline. Can you guess what the article runs about? Discuss the following points:
a) What country is the home of classical music?
b) What classical composer appeals to your mind, heart and imagination?
c) Are today’s houses packed to capacity when classical music is played?
2. Read the article from "Daily Mail" and find out what is so unusual about the band described in the text below.
By Michael Leidig
Vienna
In the home of classical music, it takes a lot to impress. However, a new Viennese ensemble, in which the instruments are made from garden vegetables, is playing to packed houses at venues such as the renowned Konzerthaus.
The Vienna Vegetable Orchestra delivers its idiosyncratic take on pieces ranging from the Radetzky March to Jazz, playing carved-out carrots, aubergines, pumpkins and other vegetables. The band – with 10 to 20 players, depending on venue and composer – developed the idea after studying the sounds of vegetables being chopped.
Jörg Piringer, the lead musician, plays a “gurkophone” horn made from a hollowed cucumber, a green pepper and a carrot reed. Fresh vegetables are bought for each concert. Afterwards, a cook adds them to a big pot of soup or stew for the musicians and audience to eat.
‘We have to buy new vegetables before each rehearsal and performance as the sound needs to be fresh,’ said Nikolaus Gansterer, another player. ‘It takes a few hours to make the instruments.’
Matthias Meinharter, who invented and plays the leek violin, said: ‘When I was young I was told not to play with my food. Now we’re playing with food, but we still eat it afterwards.’
Their music – a mix of hisses, squeaks and roars which, say aficionados, bears comparison to the best electronic music – has received mixed reviews. ‘With occasional help from mixers and juicers, the vegetable orchestra conjures up country music, marches and even free-core jazz to please even the most die-hard music fans,’ wrote the Standard newspaper.
Another critic was less impressed. ‘The combination of the carrot flute, leek violin and cabbage drum sounded more like a flock of mating geese than music as we know it,’ he lamented.
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