Berliner Philharmonie 13 October 2019 - Organ Matinee: silent film with live accompaniment by Jean-Baptiste Monnot | GoComGo.com

Organ Matinee: silent film with live accompaniment by Jean-Baptiste Monnot

Berliner Philharmonie, Berlin, Germany
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Type: Classical Concert
City: Berlin, Germany
Starts at: 11:00
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Programme
Organ & Silent Film
In memoriam Jean Guillou (1930-2019)
Battleship Potemkin, Silent Film by Sergei Eisenstein (1925)
Overview

BATTLESHIP POTEMKIN, SILENT FILM BY SERGEI EISENSTEIN (1925)

Once a year, Berlin’s Philharmonic Hall transforms into a giant silent movie theatre. This season, the programme is dedicated to an icon of cinematic history: Sergei Eisenstein’s magnum opus from 1925, Battleship Potemkin". The film score will be played live on the Philharmonie’s large organ.

Spring 1905: Russia is in turmoil. Losing the Russo-Japanese War and the economic crisis stoke rage and anger among the people. There is a mutiny on the “Potemkin” battleship because the crew refuses to eat rotten meat. Faced with the threat of execution, the sailor Grigory Vakulinchuk incites an uprising against the officers which he pays for, however, with his life. His body is laid out in Odessa, with great interest from the people. Shortly thereafter, Czarist Cossacks perpetrate a massacre on the harbour steps. Only the “Potemkin”’s battleship guns can halt the murdering. In the end, the entire approaching fleet shows solidarity with the ship: the revolution has triumphed.

The intention was for Jean Guillou to have been seated at the organ, but France’s most famous organist passed away in January 2019. What could be more appropriate than inviting Guillou’s declared favourite student, Jean-Baptiste Monnot, and dedicating the concert to the master? The 35-year old musician is a “rising star” among organists, a passionate movie buff and generally a musical all-rounder. Enjoy the show!

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: 11:00
Duration:
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