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German composer (1900–1950)
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2024-01-31 08:20:00
Jedem Krieger sein eigen Heim: Kurt Weill and Bertolt Brecht's Zu Potsdam unter den Eichen and its original political inspiration
Zu Potsdam unter den Eichen: German news photograph from 1926 of the anti-war demonstration that inspired Kurt Weill & Bertolt Brecht's powerful pieceKurt Weill's piece for unaccompanied four-part male voice ensemble, Zu Potsdam under den Eichen was premiered in Berlin in 1929. Using a text by Brecht, the piece was part of their Berliner Requiem (premiered on Radio Frankfurt in May 1929), but the piece had an independent life, being performed in November 1929 in Berlin by the Schubertchor, conductor Karl Rankl.Brecht's poem directly refers to an historical event, an anti-war demonstration in 1926 by the Roter Frontkämpferbund (RFK), a far-left paramilitary organization affiliated with the Communist Party during the Weimar Republic (see the newspaper photograph above). According to newspaper reports, an artillery helmet, combat weapons and war honours had been placed on a coffin carried as part of the demonstration. The inscription on the coffin, which as can be seen in the photograph, […]
The Boston Musical Intelligencer
2024-01-10 17:09:52
Texts Meet Tones: Origins and Meanings
[…] last fall.[/caption] Text and Tone, deconstructed|A concert exploring all combinations of text and music: poetry recitation, narrator and piano, vocalise, solo piano, art song, etc. with Alexis Peart, James Demler, Doan Drisdom, Elias Dagher, Pierre-Nicolas Colombat Distler Performance Hall, Tufts UniversityThursday, January 18, 7:30 PM Faithful, to the graveSchubert’s Winterreise with Felix Gygli, Pierre-Nicolas Colombat Goethe-Institut BostonFriday, January 19, 7:00 PM Cabaret BouquetSelections exploring the link between art song and cabaret in various languages. Songs by Weill, Schumann, Britten, Blitzstein, Schonthal, Schoenberg, and Bolcom with Joanne Evans, Elias Dagher Somerville Music Spaces1060 Broadway C101BSaturday, January 20, 7:30 PM Britten’s 17th century and Fauré's amour CourtoisBritten’s Canticle I and Holy Sonnets of John Donne, Fauré's La bonne chanson with Eric Rieger, JJ Penna Hunneman Hall, Brookline Public LibrarySunday, January 21, 2:00 PMFREE The post appeared first on The Boston Musical Intelligencer.
2023-12-31 16:56:00
[…] JCF Bach, Bartók, Beethoven, Berberian, Berio, Boismortier, Boulez, Busoni, Cage, Chausson, Cherubini, Unsuk Chin, Coleridge-Taylor, Crumb, Duparc, Elgar, Fauré, Francesco Filidei, Grisey, Saed Haddad, Hartmann, Hindemith, Holliger, Humperdinck, Ibert, Janáček, Korngold, Kurtág, Márton Illés, Jolas, Sigurd von Koch, Lachenmann, Edward Lambert, Manoury, Martinů, Messiaen, Mompou, Mussorgsky, Elizabeth Ogonek, Poulenc, Purcell, Rachmaninov, Reger, Reimann, Rossini, Saariaho, Saint-Saëns, Scarlatti, Schmidt, Schoeck, Schnittke, Schoenberg, Schulhoff, Wolfgang von Schweinitz, Scriabin, Sweelinck, Tchaikovsky, Telemann, Tippett, Ustolvskaja, Varèse, Vivaldi, Wagner, Weelkes, Weill, Widmann, Wolf, Xenakis, Zimmermann
The Boston Musical Intelligencer
2023-12-19 16:22:40
Locke’s List for 2023: Notable Operatic Recordings Plus
[…] I had a chance to review and that impressed me particularly were all composed in the twentieth century or later. The first-ever recording (1960) of Carl Nielsen’s Saul and David (1902) was re-released, coupled with a fascinating work by Helge Bonnén (whose dates are 1896-1983) for actors and orchestra: poems from Edgar Lee Masters’s famous Spoon River Anthology, spoken while the orchestra plays an interpretive underscore! The reemergence of lost or forgotten works by Kurt Weill continues with the (belated) release of a 1998 recording of Propheten, a cantata (i.e., unstaged) version of the stirring final act that got cut before the original performances of The Eternal Road, his grand pageant about Jewish history (using a text by the renowned novelist Franz Werfel). The performance is well sung, though not very expressively conducted by Dennis Russell Davies. The CD is filled out with a splendid performance of Weill’s Four Walt […]
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