V8

Saturday, 25 February 2012

10.00 pm, Concert in the Bauhaus Dessau

„Young on an Old World“
Evening piano recital to honour the whimsical Erik Satie


Pianist and Host: Steffen Schleiermacher


One of the great privileges of our theme „Hommage à Paris“ is the opportunity to introduce such great musical characters as Erik Satie. It is not, however, such an easy task to point to only „one“ Monsieur Satie: this eccentric composer has rather too many faces, was too opaque (always hidden behind spectacles and monocle) to fit into any one box. The value of his work is often disguised by a façade of anachronistic, seemingly banal music. In fact, he was an innovative force for change in 20th century classical music, encouraging many others, including Claude Debussy, to follow an independent, non-Wagnerian style. In Germany public awareness of his music is limited to a handful of pieces, and even many music aficionados only know his piano piece „Gymnopédie No. 1“ through its frequent use in film scores. The Kurt Weill Festival is therefore delighted to offer a journey of discovery into the world of Erik Satie, with our guide Steffen Schleiermacher – on the same stage on which Schleiermacher celebrated a great DADA evening in 2011. Is Satie a Dadaist? Is it really necessary to get a more detailed picture of Erik Satie? Do we really have to know how Monsieur Satie loaded a cannon? Of course we must!


Ticket Prices in €

	Cat.1	conc.
V8	19,00	16,00