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Date(s) - 06/18/2022
7:30 PM - 8:30 PM
Location
Berkeley Piano Club
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Encore performance of favorites from E4TT’s series of music by composers who fled to Hollywood in the 1930s/40s and Polish composers from that era.
Back by popular demand: E4TT will bring its 14th Season to an exciting close with a hybrid performance at the Berkeley Piano Club AND online with “Émigrés and Exiles in Hollywood: Encore!” a reprise of a some of the favorites from E4TT’s much-loved multi-year exploration of composers who fled Europe in the 1930s and ‘40s and became known for establishing today’s “Hollywood” sound, along with Polish composers of the same era.
Featuring chamber works and film arrangements by emigré film and/or Polish composers:
- Hungarian-American Miklós Rózsa (1907-1995, “Ben Hur”);
- Austrian-American prodigy Erich Korngold (1897-1957,” The Adventures of Robin Hood”);
- German-American Franz Waxman (1906-1967, “The Bride of Frankenstein”).
- Polish-French Alexandre Tansman (1897-1986, “Paris Underground”);
- Polish-American Bronisław Kaper (1902-1983, “Mutiny on the Bounty,”);
- Polish-American Henryk Wars (902-1977, “The Big Heat”);
- Auschwitz survivor Szymon Laks (1901-1983);
- Grażyna Bacewicz (1909-1969);
- Warsaw ghetto survivor André Tchaikowsky (1935-1982);
- Polish-Russian composer Mieczysław Weinberg (1919-1996);
- Doubly-exiled Austrian Hanns Eisler (1898-1962, “None But the Lonely Heart”), to texts by Bertolt Brecht.
Musicians:
- Nanette McGuinness – soprano
- Abigail Monroe – cello
- Margaret Halbig – piano
The concert will be performed at the Berkeley Piano Club for attendance in person by socially distanced, vaccinated, masked attendees. For those who are more distant, prefer not to attend in person or are unvaccinated, the concert will be live-streamed on YouTube.
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IMAGE courtesy by Nanette McGuinness (Fair Use)