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Film & Live Music

Berliner Philharmonie, Zoo Palast, Berlin, Germany
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Type: Classical Concert
City: Berlin, Germany
Starts at: 20:00
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Festival

Musikfest Berlin 2020

33 performances, nine world premieres

Musikfest Berlin 2020 will approach the beginning of the concert season with caution. Its new programme will follow the rules that protective measures from the COVID-19 pandemic have placed on public concerts. Many of the projects that have been prepared across Germany to mark this Beethoven year have fallen victim to the coronavirus crisis and have been postponed until next year.

Programme
Overview

“Crazy inventions for television” – this is what Samuel Beckett called the pieces that he developed with Südfunk Stuttgart between 1977 and 1982. They will be presented as part of an evening of films with live music at Zoo Palast Berlin, and among them is “Ghost Trio”, whose title alludes to Ludwig van Beethoven’s Piano Trio op 70, a composition that plays an important part in the film. The second part of the evening will feature the large-format film “MOVING PICTURES (946-3)” by Gerhard Richter and Corinna Belz, with music composed by Rebecca Saunders and played by trumpet virtuoso Marco Blaauw.

“Samuel Beckett’s late prose works have had a profound influence on my work. Beckett weighs every word, his shadows, his echoes”, Rebecca Saunders professed. From the age of 60, the author turned to television, a medium that may no longer have been cutting edge at the time, but that was still unprecedented in its wide distribution. Because his cooperation with British broadcasting institutions dragged on, Beckett turned to Südfunk Stuttgart (a part of Südwestrundfunk today). With their production team, he realised and directed four projects between 1977 and 1982 (“crazy inventions for televisions”), including “Ghost Trio”, which is based on Beethoven’s eponymous Piano Trio in D major.

Rebecca Saunders shares Beckett’s affinity to moving images and his way of forming time through art and suspending its measured process. “946-3” was originally a painting by Gerhard Richter, from which he and Corinna Belz created a film of moving colours. Saunders was fascinated by “his radiance, his hypnotizing, absolute concentration and above all, his way of suspending any sense of time”. She wrote the music for this abstract film for trumpet player Marco Blaauw who will perform at the Philharmonie three days previously in the concert with Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin, in Rebecca Saunders’ composition “White” for trumpet solo.

Programme:
Samuel Beckett (1906 – 1989)
Ghost Trio (1975/76)
With the actors Klaus Herm, Irmgart Forst
and directed by Samuel Beckett
SDR 1977 production

Samuel Beckett
Not I (1973)
With the actor Billie Whitelaw
and directed by Anthony Page
A joint production of BBC London and RM Productions London

Gerhard Richter (*1932) & Corinna Belz (*1955)
MOVING PICTURE (946-3)
New version (2019/2020)

Corinna Belz film production

with a composition of the same name by
Rebecca Saunders (*1967)
for trumpet solo and electronics (2019/20)
World premiere of the final version

Venue Info

Berliner Philharmonie - Berlin
Location   Herbert-von-Karajan-Str. 1

The Berliner Philharmonie is a concert hall in Berlin, Germany and home to the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra. The Philharmonie lies on the south edge of the city's Tiergarten and just west of the former Berlin Wall. The Philharmonie is on Herbert-von-Karajan-Straße, named for the orchestra's longest-serving principal conductor. The building forms part of the Kulturforum complex of cultural institutions close to Potsdamer Platz.

The Philharmonie consists of two venues, the Grand Hall (Großer Saal) with 2,440 seats and the Chamber Music Hall (Kammermusiksaal) with 1,180 seats. Though conceived together, the smaller hall was opened in the 1980s, some twenty years after the main building.

Hans Scharoun designed the building, which was constructed over the years 1960–1963. It opened on 15 October 1963 with Herbert von Karajan conducting Beethoven's 9th Symphony. It was built to replace the old Philharmonie, destroyed by British bombers on 30 January 1944, the eleventh anniversary of Hitler becoming Chancellor. The hall is a singular building, asymmetrical and tentlike, with the main concert hall in the shape of a pentagon. The height of the rows of seats increases irregularly with distance from the stage. The stage is at the centre of the hall, surrounded by seating on all sides. The so-called vineyard-style seating arrangement (with terraces rising around a central orchestral platform) was pioneered by this building, and became a model for other concert halls, including the Sydney Opera House (1973), Denver's Boettcher Concert Hall (1978), the Gewandhaus in Leipzig (1981), Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles (2003), and the Philharmonie de Paris (2014).

Jazz pianist Dave Brubeck and his quartet recorded three live performances at the hall; Dave Brubeck in Berlin (1964), Live at the Berlin Philharmonie (1970), and We're All Together Again for the First Time (1973). Miles Davis's 1969 live performance at the hall has also been released on DVD.

On 20 May 2008 a fire broke out at the hall. A quarter of the roof suffered considerable damage as firefighters cut openings to reach the flames beneath the roof. The hall interior sustained water damage but was otherwise "generally unharmed". Firefighters limited damage using foam. The cause of the fire was attributed to welding work, and no serious damage was caused either to the structure or interior of the building. Performances resumed, as scheduled, on 1 June 2008 with a concert by the San Francisco Symphony Youth Orchestra.

The main organ was built by Karl Schuke, Berlin, in 1965, and renovated in 1992, 2012 and 2016. It has four manuals and 91 stops. The pipes of the choir organs and the Tuba 16' and Tuba 8' stops are not assigned to any group and can be played from all four manuals and the pedals.

Important Info
Type: Classical Concert
City: Berlin, Germany
Starts at: 20:00
Duration:
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