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Ensemble Modern I Porträt Ruth Crawford Seeger: Songs

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Fri, Sep 13, 2024, 20:00
The composer Ruth Crawford Seeger was not only part of the ultramodernist movement that sought to investigate the possibilities of music beyond European traditions, she was also a researcher into the folkloric music of the USA and influenced by the Theosophists. A woman of her time, the fast-moving inter-war years, and yet so far ahead of them – Musikfest Berlin and Ensemble Modern dedicates a three-part concert portrait to her that enables her musical world to enter a dialogue with contemporaries and present-day composers.

Keywords: Musikfest Berlin, Vocal Music

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Musicians

Ensemble ModernEnsemble
David NiemannConductor
Nina GuoSoprano
Amanda BeckerSoprano
Keren MotseriSoprano
Paul JeukendrupSound Director

Program

Music of the SpheresJohanna Magdalena Beyer
Five SongsRuth Crawford Seeger
IndígenaTania León
Three SongsRuth Crawford Seeger
The Adventures of Tom ThumbRuth Crawford Seeger
Waste KnotKatherine Balch
Two RicercareRuth Crawford Seeger
Singinʼ SepiaTania León
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