Jazz Articles about Europlane Orchestra

Europlane Orchestra: Plays Kurt Weill

by Jack Bowers
August 5, 2005

Working from the premise that music is a universal language with the power to bring people together, pianist Roberto Magris formed the Europlane Orchestra (actually a septet), three of whose members are from Italy, the others from Austria, Slovenia, Croatia and the Czech Republic. And to broaden the concept even further, Europlane performs the music of German composer Kurt Weill in this generally entertaining concert recorded six years ago.

As music is all-inclusive, it matters little that some of these ...