Emigres & Exiles in Hollywood: Series Finale Saturday, June 12 at 7:30 p.m., Live streamed for free from the Berkeley Piano Club RSVP The concert will be available at no cost (donations welcome) via livestream on YouTube.
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) and selected Mazurkas for solo piano by Polish composer Alexandre Tansman (1897-1986), (Paris Underground, Flesh and Fantasy). Listen to it:
“Scherzo and Introduction,” in a new arrangement by Patrick Russ 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:
Songs for soprano and piano by Austrian-American composer Eric Zeisl (Above Suspicion,
“Hollywood-Elegie Nr. 7” and "Hollywood (Diese stadt hat mich belehrt" (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:
"Andante" for cello and piano by by Polish composer Grażyna
Bacewicz (1909-1969). Listen to her Quartet for Four Violins:
The concert will be available at no cost (donations welcome) via livestream on the Center for New Music's YouTube channel: 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 and the Dennis Schumann Foundation.
