Although the Bauhaus was not a music conservatoire, it nevertheless exerted a great fascination on many musicians. This is the focal point of the chamber concert presented by Michal Friedländer and Kai Hinrich Müller. German and American composers with a connection to the famous art school are featured such as the ultra-modernist George Antheil and other composers including Paul Hindemith and Kurt Weill. Like many of their colleagues, they were also forced to flee from the National Socialists to the USA where they attempted to restart their careers, for example on Broadway. All three individuals had connections with the Bauhaus, as did Marc Blitzstein whose Bauhaus opera Parabola and Circula will receive its first performance in the Philharmonie Berlin immediately following the lecture-concert.

We are delighted to be participating in this year's Musikfest Berlin with two concerts as part of bauhaus music. This festival opens the annual concert season with international guest orchestras and Berlin orchestras, organized by the Berliner Festspiele in cooperation with the Berliner Philharmoniker Foundation.


Program on Sunday, September 21, 2025:

4:00 PM

"From Bauhaus to Broadway"
A moderated concert
Philharmonie Berlin, Chamber Music Hall

Free, with registration

Moderated by:
Michal Friedländer, Kai Hinrich Müller

With works by:
Kurt Weill, George Antheil, Paul Hindemith, Marc Blitzstein


7:00 PM

Concert premiere
Norrköping Symphony Orchestra
Marc Blitzstein's "Parabola and Circula"
Philharmonie Berlin, Great Hall
Introductory event: 6:10 PM, South Foyer

Ticket sale through the Berliner Festspiele

Leonard Bernstein, Symphony No. 2 "Age of Anxiety" (1949)
Marc Blitzstein, "Parabola and Circula" (1929/30)
Opera in one act
Text by George Whitsett

Conductor:
Karl-Heinz Steffens


Musikfest Berlin
A joint event of the Bauhaus-Archiv/Museum für Gestaltung and
the Berliner Festspiele/Berlin Music Festival.

Supported by:
The Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media LOTTO Foundation Berlin