Waldhaus Variationen

**Music à la carte for Trio Janett and Grand Hotel**

The large hall of the Hotel Waldhaus in Sils Maria in the Engadine is not just a place for many, but a very favourite place. And the musicians Domenic, Curdin and Niculin Janett will take this – together with the entire Grand Hotel – to the stage of the Chur Theatre, while at the same time Ils Fränzlis da Tschlin will bring the spirit of the famous hotel to life on the screen.

Roll the film, raise the curtain! A charming concierge takes the audience to the reception, kitchen, bar or indoor pool of the Hotel Waldhaus. In and with these places, the Trio Janett tells and plays on stage and the large formation of the Fränzlis da Tschlin and Friends on the film screen - from the Waldhauswalzer at the reception to the rustic Scottish in the smoking room to the Elvis evergreen in the bar to the Balkan brass hit in the hotel corridors.

And to ensure that the audience feels just as comfortable as in the hotel, there is music à la carte, which means that the audience can decide what is served musically and cinematically. So every evening is always a slightly different short holiday at the Waldhaus. A terrific feast for the ears.

**Old and new Fränzlis**

The "your-Fränzlis" was the Yenish Waser family, who had immigrated from Central Switzerland to the Engadine in the first half of the 19th century and played for dancing throughout the Engadine in the second half of the 19th century. The most famous offspring of the Wasers was Franz-Josef from Chaflur near Strada: small in stature, he was called "Fränzli" everywhere.

100 years later, in the 1980s, the "old" Fränzli style was to be revived: Men Steiner and Domenic Janett put together a band that was to play Engadine music from the end of the 19th century in the "your-Fränzli" line-up. Noldi Alder from Appenzell, Flurin Caviezel from Chur and Ramosch and the Tschliner brothers Curdin, Domenic and Duri Janett recorded some pieces. What was intended as a one-off gathering for a recording developed into a self-runner that led to a concert career that none of the "new Fränzlis" would have dreamed of.

"Waldhaus Variations" is part of the opening round of the 26/27 season.