Freedom - "Bauhaus Music 2024" is dedicated to this highly topical topic. With a focus on exile, the three-day festival explores the artistic and political attitudes or forms of expression from then until today.
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LOGO Bauhaus Music
In moderated concerts, works by Arnold Schönberg, Kurt Schwitters, Johann Sebastian Bach, Béla Bartók, Alban Berg, Stefan Wolpe, Cathy Milliken and Ruth Crawford Seeger can be heard, among others.
Numerous artists, including the well-known soloists Claudia Barainsky, Kolja Blacher, Gunnar Brandt-Sigurdsson and Jocelyn B. Smith, and the Deutsches Kammerorchester Berlin come together for three days to explore the musical life and work at the Bauhaus.
"I felt released, freed," said the composer Ruth Crawford Seeger about her visit to the Bauhaus Dessau in 1931.
Works performed:
• Mark Blitzstein: Parabola and Circula (excerpts)
• Cathy Milliken: Songs from Driving with Fatima, with Jocelyn B. Smith
• Johann Sebastian Bach: Brandenburg Concerto No. 3 BWV 1048
• Alban Berg: Violin Concerto, Kolja Blacher, solo violin
• Béla Bartók: Music for string instruments, percussion and celesta Sz. 106
• Suite from the Twenties for mixed ensemble (arrangement: Geert van Keulen)
• An Anna Blume for piano and musical clown op. 5, 3
• The Masters of the World op. 12, 4 /
• What is “upheaval”? op. 7, 3
• (possibly Ballad of the Osseg Widows or Work and Capital op. 17, 1)
• From here on Farther for violin, clarinet, bass clarinet and piano
• The Man from Midian. Ballet music in two parts for 2 pianos
• Kurt Schwitters: Ursonate (excerpts) with Gunnar Brandt-Sigurdsson
• Ruth Crawford Seeger: Music for Small Orchestra
• Arnold Schönberg: Pierrot lunaire op. 21 with Claudia Barainsky
Thursday, 17 October 2024, 12.30-13.30, the temporary bauhaus-archiv
Lunch concert: Marc Blitzstein, Cathy Milliken, Jocelyn B. Smith
Event language: German, fully booked, participation only possible with accreditation
Friday, 18 October 2024, 19:30-21:00, St. Elisabeth
Concert with pieces by Béla Bartók, Alban Berg, Johann Sebastian Bach
Advance ticket sales, event language: German
Saturday, October 19, 2024, Villa Elisabeth
3 p.m. to 5 p.m.: Moderated concert “Stefan Wolpe in Portrait”
Free, with registration
6:30 p.m. to 8 p.m.: Concert with pieces by Kurt Schwitters, Arnold Schönberg, Ruth Crawford Seeger
8:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m.: Jazz and Bebop at the Bauhaus
Free, with registration
Admission: Until August 31, 2024: €15, reduced €7 plus fees, thereafter: €20, reduced €10, remaining tickets at the box office
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