crescendo26: GegenTöne - Counter-Tones
Unheard Resistance – Musica inaudita meets SOUB – crescendo
The Symphonic Orchestra Utopy Berlin (SOUB) has a clear mission: to make the music of marginalised composers visible and audible, to perform works beyond the established canon that are artistically outstanding yet rarely heard on stage. That is exactly what will happen this evening.
Grażyna Bacewicz: Violin Concerto No. 3
Samuel Coleridge-Taylor: Ballad for Orchestra in A minor, Op. 33
Takashi Lorenz Waschkau, violin / Symphonic Orchestra Utopy Berlin / Aneray Jaimee Heidenreich, conductor
In the work of the SOUB, musicians learn about marginalised composers, actively perform their works, expand their repertoire and gain new perspectives on music history. At the same time, the orchestra brings together people from different backgrounds, age groups and educational paths to form an ensemble that not only addresses diversity, but lives it.
This evening will feature Violin Concerto No. 3 by Polish violinist and composer Grażyna Bacewicz, who was only the second woman in her country to gain recognition as a composer, and a ballad by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, who, as a mentee of Edward Elgar, excelled at translating musical ideas into moving melodies and rich string sounds.
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The Berlin Senate has imposed enormous savings targets on public universities. You know that: An excellent musical education consists not only of the many hours of solitary practising and lessons by professors, but also, to a large extent, of performing in front of an audience. This inherent part of the training is also the opportunity for you to attend almost always free concerts at a high level. We don't want to have to cut back on this. By attending our events, you can also show those responsible in politics that music and art are meaningful for every society. And if you can: support us with small or large donations. The donations are used for teaching, tuning, transport, advertising material, for our music festival crescendo - wherever no funds can be spent at the moment. This directly benefits our students and also you as the audience, as this is the only way we can maintain events of this calibre and variety.
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Info
crescendo – Künstlerisches Betriebsbüro der Fakultät Musik
crescendo@udk-berlin.de