Concert information
Musikfest Berlin
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The composer Ruth Crawford Seeger was not only part of the ultramodernist movement that sought to investigate the possibilities of music beyond European traditions, she was also a researcher into the folkloric music of the USA and influenced by the Theosophists. A woman of her time, the fast-moving inter-war years, and yet so far ahead of them – Musikfest Berlin and Ensemble Modern dedicates a three-part concert portrait to her that enables her musical world to enter a dialogue with contemporaries and present-day composers.
Artists
Ensemble Modern
David Niemann conductor
Nina Guo soprano (Léon)
Amanda Becker soprano (Léon)
Keren Motseri soprano (Léon)
Paul Jeukendrup sound direction
Programme
Johanna Magdalena Beyer
Music of the Spheres for three electronical instruments
Ruth Crawford Seeger
Five Songs for contralto and piano to poems by Carl Sandberg
Tania León
Indígena for ensemble
Ruth Crawford Seeger
Three Songs for voice, oboe, piano, percussion, and optional orchestral ostinato to poems by Carl Sandberg
Ruth Crawford Seeger
The Adventures of Tom Thumb for three electronical instruments
Interval
Katherine Balch
Waste Knot for soprano, four amplified dictaphones, and ensemble
Ruth Crawford Seeger
Two Ricercare for voice and piano to poems by H. T. Tsiang
Tania León
Singinʼ Sepia, five songs for voice and three instruments to texts from Rita Dove
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A Berliner Festspiele / Musikfest Berlin eventSupported by the Capital Cultural Fund
Chamber Music Hall
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19:10
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