Musikalisches Brot

Art and reality: this is the blueprint for a better world order, sketched out by Wagner and Cage a hundred years apart—with astonishing parallels; this is the immorality of his – and not only his – era, which Karl Kraus combats with Offenbach's Parisian operettas, themselves created in an operetta state (with disturbing parallels to our present day); these are the radical ideas of the brilliant dilettante Jean Cocteau, for example that composers should be inspired by life on the street and that the art of sound should become as unmetaphysical and everyday as bread and chairs.

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