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Ensemble Musikfabrik I

Berliner Philharmonie, Main Hall (DOUBLE), Berlin, Germany
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Important Info
Type: Classical Concert
City: Berlin, Germany
Starts at: 17:00
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Festival

Musikfest Berlin 2020

33 performances, nine world premieres

Musikfest Berlin 2020 will approach the beginning of the concert season with caution. Its new programme will follow the rules that protective measures from the COVID-19 pandemic have placed on public concerts. Many of the projects that have been prepared across Germany to mark this Beethoven year have fallen victim to the coronavirus crisis and have been postponed until next year.

Programme
Rebecca Saunders: Either or, for 2 Trumpets (2020)
Rebecca Saunders: Fury II, Concerto for double bass and ensemble (2009)
Rebecca Saunders: dichroic seventeen, for accordion, electric guitar, piano, 2 percussionists, cello and 2 double basses (1998)
Overview

The Musikfabrik portrays the composer Rebecca Saunders at the Musikfest Berlin in two concerts with a selection of works for different ensemble casts from 1998 to 2020.

In 2019, composer Rebecca Saunders was awarded the Ernst von Siemens Music Prize in Munich – probably the highest distinction for creative musicians and musical thinkers. At the awarding ceremony, the foundation’s board announced that in the future, the organisation’s support would also be available to young ensembles “which make a vital contribution to the transformation of compositions into musical experiences”. There could have been no better time for these two decisions to coincide – the awarding of the main prize and the reference to the future. For Rebecca Saunders, dialogue with performers, the communal exploration of sound possibilities and their inherent time is an essential part of the composing process. The composer and Musikfabrik have been working together regularly since 1998, to their mutual musical delight. “Close cooperation with musicians is an inspiration, a driving force”, she professed in her Munich acceptance speech with respect to the musicians of the Ensemble Musikfabrik. “We are a team and as banal as it may sound: Without you, our New Music would not resound. My work often pays homage to you, to your mastery, to your astonishing virtuosity, to your decades-long dedication to your instrument.” This programme will look at the collaboration’s early days and move on to joint projects from more recent times.

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: 17:00
Duration:
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