UA Berlin – The 1930s: No place, nowhere

Tickets:  https://www.eventbrite.de/o/zafraan-ensemble-14622931981

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.

The third concert in the UA series highlights the loss of home in the 1930s, when everything was falling apart. One moment Berlin is listening to a premiere of the world-famous Stravinsky, and suddenly everything is different. Many go, some go within themselves, and ‘arranging’ takes on a meaning outside of the musical. Paul Dessau’s suite, composed in 1935, was not premiered until 1989, when we also heard the remaining movements. Rudolf Wagner-Régeny gets through this and does not remain unwounded. Paul Hindemith has many students everywhere and yet does not establish a tradition. To this day, the record for most students is held by one composer: Carl Orff.

Igor Stravinsky (1882-1971) Duo concertant (1932, premiere (UA Berlin 1932)
Paul Dessau (1894-1979) 1st and 2nd movements from: Suite for alto sax., piano (Berlin 1989)
Paul Dessau Main Heart, main Heart for singing based on a Yiddish folk tune (1936)
Rudolf Wagner-Régeny (1903-1969) Love song (1950)
Paul Hindemith (1895-1963) Solo – Arioso – Duet from: Trio for piano, viola and tenor saxophone op. 47 (1928)
Carl Orff (1895-1982) from: Music for Children (1930-1935, 1954) Orff instruments
Darío Guerrero (*1987) Tres Intensidades (UA, 2020)
Etienne Haan (*1992) Standing for/by (UA, 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.