In "The Machinist tender fury or ear," a short play that continues being represented in Austria, Jonke, with his usual humor and ability to print an extremely fast pace to his stories, shows Beethoven as a man always aware of any developments that could alleviate his deafness.
"The head of Georg Friedrich Handel's" focuses on the same date, April 13 from different years, three crucial moments in the life of the musician: the stroke he suffered in 1737, creating his Messiah and his death in 1741 1759. With his great erudition and his fine irony, Jonke describes the last moments of the composer's life.
In the musical melodrama "A strange business," Jonke covers the wide range of work that served as librettist Da Ponte and staged his hectic life.
"The death of Anton Webern" recreates an imaginary dialogue between the Austrian composer and American Soldiers who shot three bullets. Alternatively contact the soldier and his victim, Jonke wonders about this senseless death and yet meaningful.