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bauhaus music. Arnold Schönberg, Kurt Schwitters, Ruth Crawford Seeger
Event by: Bauhaus-Archiv
Location: Villa Elisabeth, Invalidenstraße 3, Berlin - Mitte
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About event
Moderated concert in German as part of bauhaus music 2024 in cooperation with the German Chamber Orchestra Berlin.
You will hear:
• Kurt Schwitters: Ursonata (excerpts)
• Ruth Crawford Seeger: Music for Small Orchestra
• Arnold Schönberg: Pierrot lunaire op. 21
Arnold Schönberg, a prominent protagonist of new music, fled into American exile. His melodrama “Pierrot lunaire” was produced by the Bauhaus in Weimar in 1922. The piece's atonal music and innovative spoken singing made it a key work of musical modernism. For “Bauhaus Music” it is interpreted by Claudia Barainsky.
Kurt Schwitters also worked with new linguistic means, but much more radically, in his “Ursonata”. The sound poem, written between 1923 and 1932, reduces language to individual sounds and allows the boundary between music and poetry to disappear. During one of his guest appearances at the Bauhaus, Schwitters also performed the “Ursonata”. Gunnar Brandt-Sigurdsson recites excerpts from the Dada poem.
Ruth Crawford Seeger's “Music for Small Orchestra” completes the evening with a piece from the American avant-garde. The study of timbres and atmosphere is one of the few works by this radically modern composer, who, after initial success, withdrew creatively and devoted herself to researching folk music. “Music for Small Orchestra” was created shortly before Seeger's visit to the Bauhaus Dessau, which she found particularly liberating and which inspired the festival motto of “Bauhaus Music”: Freedom.
With: Gunnar Brandt-Sigurdsson , Claudia Barainsky
Management: Karl-Heinz Steffens
Moderation: Kai Hinrich Müller
Venue: Villa Elisabeth, Invalidenstraße 3, 10115 Berlin-Mitte.
Ticket prices:
Secure our early bird tickets until August 31st, 2024 at a price of 15 euros, *reduced 7 euros per concert, plus fees.
From September 1st, 2024 : Regular 20 euros, *reduced 10 euros per concert, plus fees.
*Eligible for discounts: pupils under 18 years of age, trainees, students, people doing voluntary service (BFD, FSJ, FÖJ), seniors* inside, severely disabled people, ALG 1 and citizen benefit recipients, Berlin Pass holders, members of the Bauhaus Archive e.V. Please bring proof with you.
You will hear:
• Kurt Schwitters: Ursonata (excerpts)
• Ruth Crawford Seeger: Music for Small Orchestra
• Arnold Schönberg: Pierrot lunaire op. 21
Arnold Schönberg, a prominent protagonist of new music, fled into American exile. His melodrama “Pierrot lunaire” was produced by the Bauhaus in Weimar in 1922. The piece's atonal music and innovative spoken singing made it a key work of musical modernism. For “Bauhaus Music” it is interpreted by Claudia Barainsky.
Kurt Schwitters also worked with new linguistic means, but much more radically, in his “Ursonata”. The sound poem, written between 1923 and 1932, reduces language to individual sounds and allows the boundary between music and poetry to disappear. During one of his guest appearances at the Bauhaus, Schwitters also performed the “Ursonata”. Gunnar Brandt-Sigurdsson recites excerpts from the Dada poem.
Ruth Crawford Seeger's “Music for Small Orchestra” completes the evening with a piece from the American avant-garde. The study of timbres and atmosphere is one of the few works by this radically modern composer, who, after initial success, withdrew creatively and devoted herself to researching folk music. “Music for Small Orchestra” was created shortly before Seeger's visit to the Bauhaus Dessau, which she found particularly liberating and which inspired the festival motto of “Bauhaus Music”: Freedom.
With: Gunnar Brandt-Sigurdsson , Claudia Barainsky
Management: Karl-Heinz Steffens
Moderation: Kai Hinrich Müller
Venue: Villa Elisabeth, Invalidenstraße 3, 10115 Berlin-Mitte.
Ticket prices:
Secure our early bird tickets until August 31st, 2024 at a price of 15 euros, *reduced 7 euros per concert, plus fees.
From September 1st, 2024 : Regular 20 euros, *reduced 10 euros per concert, plus fees.
*Eligible for discounts: pupils under 18 years of age, trainees, students, people doing voluntary service (BFD, FSJ, FÖJ), seniors* inside, severely disabled people, ALG 1 and citizen benefit recipients, Berlin Pass holders, members of the Bauhaus Archive e.V. Please bring proof with you.