Emigres & Exiles in Hollywood: Series Finale Saturday, June 12 at 7:30 p.m., Berkeley Piano Club BUY TICKETS ($5-$30) or RSVP The concert will be available at no cost via livestream on E4TT's YouTube channel. We ask that you consider making a donation of whatever feels comfortable. In-person admission if safe and permitted. $30/$15/$5: BUY TICKETS OR RSVP.
The finale of E4TT's multi-year exploration of rarely heard chamber works and movie arrangements by film composers who fled Europe in the 1930s and ‘40s, many going on to win multiple Academy Awards, creating the characteristic Hollywood sound that shaped what we hear at the movies today, also with music by Polish composers of that era.
Featuring:
Sonatine transatlantique(1926, excerpt) for solo piano by Polish composer Alexandre Tansman (1897-1986), (Paris Underground, Flesh and Fantasy). Listen to it:
“Scherzo and Introduction,” arranged for cello and piano, by two-time Oscar winner, German/Polish-American composer Franz Waxman (1909-1967) (Sunset Boulevard, A Place in the Sun). Watch selected greatest hits:
Kaleidescope (1946, excerpts) for solo piano, by Hungarian-American composer Miklós Rózsa (1907-1995) (Ben Hur, Spellbound, and A Double Life). Listen to the first movement from E4TT's recording of his Duo Op. 8#1:
Tanzlied des Pierrot from Die tode Stadt (1920) arr. for cello and piano, by Czech-American prodigy Erich Korngold (1897-1957), (The Adventures of Robin Hood, The Sea Hawk). Listen to it:
Songs for soprano and piano by Austrian-American composer Eric Zeisl (Above Suspicion,
"Echoes of Love" (arr soprano, cello, piano) by Henryk Vars (1902-1977). Listen to the main theme from "The Big Heat":
“Hollywood-Elegie Nr. 7” (1942) from "Hollywood
Liederbuch" by Austrian-American composer Hanns Eisler (1898-1962) to a text by Bertolt Brecht(1898-1956). Listen to it:
Romance from Trois Pièces de Concert for cello and piano by Auschwitz survivor Szymon Laks (1901-1983).
Listen to his Sinfonietta for Strings:
Two preludes for solo cello by Polish-Russian composer Mieczysław Weinberg (1919-1996). Listen to all 24 here:
Two inventions for solo piano by Polish composer André Tchaikowsky (1935-1982). Listen to the complete Op. 2:
"Moravian Dance" for cello and piano by by Polish composerGrażyna
Bacewicz (1909-1969). Listen to her Quartet for Four Violins:
The concert will be available at no cost via livestream on E4TT's YouTube channel. We ask that you consider making a donation of whatever feels comfortable. In-person admission if safe and permitted. $30/$15/$5: BUY TICKETS OR RSVP.
E4TT musicians McGuinness and Lerner, joined by season guest pianist Margaret Halbig
This concert is sponsored, in part, by a grant from The Ross McKee Foundation.
