From Bauhaus to Broadway
Weill / Antheil / Hindemith / Bernstein / Blitzstein
From Bauhaus to Broadway
Weill / Antheil / Hindemith / Bernstein / Blitzstein
Although the Bauhaus was not a music conservatoire, it nevertheless exerted a great fascination on many musicians. This is the focal point of the chamber concert presented by Michal Friedländer and Kai Hinrich Müller. German and American composers with a connection to the famous art school are featured such as the ultra-modernist George Antheil and other composers including Paul Hindemith and Kurt Weill. Like many of their colleagues, they were also forced to flee from the Nazis to the USA where they attempted to restart their careers, for example on Broadway. All three individuals had connections with the Bauhaus, as did Marc Blitzstein whose Bauhaus opera “Parabola and Circula” will receive its first performance in the Philharmonie Berlin immediately following the lecture-concert.
Concert program
Kurt Weill (1900 – 1950)
Alabama song (1927)
My ship (1941)
I’m a stranger here myself (1943)
for soprano and piano
George Antheil (1900 – 1959)
Sonata No. 2 for violin with accompaniment of piano and drums
Paul Hindemith (1895 – 1963)
Quartet for clarinet, violin, violoncello and piano (1938)
Leonard Bernstein (1918 – 1990)
Sonata for clarinet and piano (1941/42)
Marc Blitzstein (1905 – 1964)
Nickel under the foot (1937)
Stay in my arms (1936)
Until and I heard (1962)
I wish it so (1959)
for soprano and piano
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Cast
Musikfest Berlin
Berliner Festspiele
Philharmonie Berlin
Stage:
Philharmonie, Chamber Music Hall
Herbert-von-Karajan-Straße 1
10785 Berlin Berlin
Free entrance
Free admission, free ticket required
Eine gemeinsame Veranstaltung des Bauhaus-Archiv / Museum für Gestaltung und der Berliner Festspiele / Musikfest Berlin, gefördert durch die LOTTO-Stiftung Berlin