Ensemble Modern
Zankel Hall at Carnegie Hall
881 7th Ave
New York, NY 10019
Apr 12, 2024
7:30 PM EDT
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The Weimar Republic’s urgent blend of desperate defiance and vast artistic possibility come together in this Ensemble Modern performance. It opens with Hindemith’s Kammermusik No. 1, a masterstroke of postmodernism. Erich Korngold’s hit suite from Much Ado About Nothing offers an early glimpse at his wildly successful partnership with Max Reinhardt, more than a decade before they fled Europe and made Hollywood history. Schoenberg’s Accompaniment to a Cinematographic Scene is—almost certainly intentionally—not so much a film “accompaniment” as it is a full-fledged main attraction. Mezzo-soprano Wallis Giunta joins in HK Gruber and Christian Muthspiel’s brand-new arrangement of The Seven Deadly Sins, a biting satire composed the same year Kurt Weill and Bertolt Brecht’s works were banned in their native Germany. Subscriber/Member Presale August 14 Public On Sale August 21
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Ensemble Modern Biography
The Ensemble Modern is a chamber ensemble dedicated to the music of modern composers. Formed in 1980 as a "democratic orchestra", the group is based in Frankfurt, Germany and made up variously of about twenty members from numerous countries which all are highly acclaimed soloists and professoral music teachers.
Ensemble Modern tour widely and have released many recordings, performing works by such composers as Charles Ives, Olivier Messiaen, Kurt Weill, Edgard Varèse, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Conlon Nancarrow, Steve Reich, George Benjamin, Frank Zappa, Anthony Braxton, Heiner Goebbels, Roberto Carnevale, Alva Noto + Ryuichi Sakamoto and many others. They are highly regarded for their ability to play difficult music with complex rhythms and tempi. Frank Zappa said they were the first to play his music exactly the way he intened it to sound. In 2003 the group received an ECHO award.
Read MoreEnsemble Modern tour widely and have released many recordings, performing works by such composers as Charles Ives, Olivier Messiaen, Kurt Weill, Edgard Varèse, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Conlon Nancarrow, Steve Reich, George Benjamin, Frank Zappa, Anthony Braxton, Heiner Goebbels, Roberto Carnevale, Alva Noto + Ryuichi Sakamoto and many others. They are highly regarded for their ability to play difficult music with complex rhythms and tempi. Frank Zappa said they were the first to play his music exactly the way he intened it to sound. In 2003 the group received an ECHO award.
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