Back by popular demand! We revisit some of audience favorites from our multi-year exploration of rarely heard chamber works and movie arrangements by film composers who fled Europe in the 1930s and ‘40s, many going on to win multiple Academy Awards, creating the characteristic Hollywood sound that shaped what we hear at the movies today, also with music by Polish composers of that era, preparation for returning to the Krakow Culture Festival later this month.
Featuring:
Serenade from "Der Schneemann" (1910) arr. for cello and piano, by Czech-American prodigy Erich Korngold (1897-1957), (The Adventures of Robin Hood):
Trois Preludes en forme de Blues(1937) and selected Mazurkas for solo piano (1918-28) by Polish composer Alexandre Tansman (1897-1986), (Paris Underground, Flesh and Fantasy):
“Scherzo and Introduction,” in a new arrangement by Patrick Russ for cello and piano, by two-time Oscar winner, German/Polish-American composer Franz Waxman (1909-1967) (Sunset Boulevard):
Songs from films by Henryk Vars (1902-1977) (The Big Heat). Listen to his "Echoes of Love:"
Music by Polish-American composer Bronislaw Kaper (1902-1983) (Lili). Listen to his "Hi-lili, Hi-lo":
"Homage a Paderewski," by Italian-American Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco (1895-1986), (And Then There Were None):
Duo Op. 8 Movement 1 (1946, excerpts) for solo piano, by Hungarian-American composer Miklós Rózsa (1907-1995) (Ben Hur):
Romance from Trois Pièces de Concert for cello and piano by Auschwitz survivor Szymon Laks (1901-1983):
Two preludes for solo cello by Polish-Russian composer Mieczysław Weinberg (1919-1996):
Two inventions for solo piano by Polish composer André Tchaikowsky (1935-1982):
"Mazovian Dance" for cello and piano by by Polish composer Grażyna
Bacewicz (1909-1969):
The concert will be available at no cost (donations welcome) via livestream: RSVP.
E4TT musicians McGuinness, Monroe and Halbig
E4TT's 2021/22 season is supported by a grant from the San Francisco Arts Commission, and sponsored, in part, by a grant from the Ross McKee Foundation. *Exiles & Emigres in Hollywood is sponsored, in part, by a grant from the Dennis Schuman Charitable Foundation.
This activity is supported in part by the California Arts Council, a state agency. Learn more at www.arts.ca.gov; this concert is sponsored, in part, by a grant from the Dennis Schumann Foundation.
