The Zafraan Ensemble is celebrating its 10th anniversary! The second concert in the UA Berlin series is about exile. Meistersaal, Köthener Str. 38, 10963 Berlin - October 30, 2020 at 6 p.m. and 8:30 p.m
Tickets: https://www.eventbrite.de/e/ua-berlin-ii-die-1920er-exil-tickets-122569993149
In a series of ten chamber concerts, the history of Berlin from the 1910s to today is told as a musical one. Each of the evenings represents a decade, in which a work that premiered in Berlin during that decade forms the programmatic trigger.
At the 19th music evening of the “November Group” on May 2, 1927, Stefan Wolpe’s piano sonata was premiered. Hanns Eisler and Arthur Schnabel are among those in the audience. But the “standing music” was not allowed to remain for long and Wolpe went into exile in the USA, where he became a sought-after teacher.
Among his students are not only Morton Feldman, but also the Berliner Ursula Mamlok. In 2006 she returned to Berlin. If the circle hadn’t broken forever, it would have closed.
Stefan Wolpe (1902-1972) Piano Sonata N°1 ‘Stehende Musik’ (UA Berlin, 1927)
Anton Webern (1883-1945) Quartet op. 22 (1928-1930)
Ursula Mamlok (1923-2016) From My Garden (1983 )
Morton Feldman (1926-1987) Durations 1 (1960)
Ursula Mamlok (1923-2016) Five Bagatelles (1988)
Simon James Phillips (*1973) Pent (UA Berlin, 2020))
Zafraan Ensemble
Moderation: Mark Scheibe
Artistic direction: M. Smith, J. Gerhard, C. Hund-Göschel
Concept: M. Smith, S. Weihrauch, S. Solte, J. Gerhard
A concert series by the Zafraan Ensemble. Funded by the Senate Department for Culture and Europe, the Ernst von Siemens Music Foundation and the Dwight and Ursula Mamlok Foundation.
