Bauhaus Music 2024
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“I felt released, freed”, recalled composer Ruth Crawford Seeger after visiting the Bauhaus Dessau in 1931.
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Freedom is more relevant than ever before and was the central theme of the 2024 “Bauhaus Music” festival. With a spotlight on “exile”, the three-day festival highlighted artistic and political positions and forms of expression surrounding the concept of freedom, past and present. The moderated concerts included works by Arnold Schönberg, Kurt Schwitters, Johann Sebastian Bach, Béla Bartók, Alban Berg, Stefan Wolpe, Cathy Milliken and Ruth Crawford Seeger. Numerous artists and renowned soloists like Claudia Barainsky, Kolja Blacher, Gunnar Brandt-Sigurdsson and Jocelyn B. Smith, and the Deutsches Kammerorchester Berlin came together over three days to explore the musical life and work at the Bauhaus.
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The Bauhaus Music Festival 2024 opened with excerpts from Mark Blitzstein’s opera “Parabola and Circula” and Cathy Milliken’s radio play “Driving with Fatima” at our Temporary Bauhaus-Archiv.
The Bauhaus Music Festival 2024 opened on 17 October at the Temporary Bauhaus-ArchivPhoto: Pauline Ruther
Bauhaus Music 2024 at the Temporary Bauhaus-ArchivPhoto: Pauline Ruther
Live performance of the radio play “Driving with Fatima” (2017) featuring singer Jocelyn B. Smith and composer Cathy Milliken on pianoPhoto: Pauline Ruther
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Bach, Bartók, and Berg – the second evening continued with variety at St. Elisabeth Church, featuring the Deutsches Kammerorchester Berlin and Kolja Blacher.
Bauhaus Music 2024Photo: Pauline Ruther
Bauhaus Music 2024Photo: Pauline Ruther
The second evening of the Bauhaus Music Festival 2024 at St. Elisabeth ChurchPhoto: Pauline Ruther
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The event concluded with a diverse program: Schwitters, Seeger, and Schönberg met experimental soundscapes. The concerts were accompanied by a comprehensive outreach program. On the grounds of Villa Elisabeth, “Sounds for the Future” and “Early Reflections” introduced themselves, and visitors had the opportunity to engage musically and creatively in the Bauhaus Workshop and the “The Art of Listening” workshop.
Bauhaus Music 2024Photo: Pauline Ruther
The third evening of the Bauhaus Music Festival 2024 at St. Elisabeth ChurchPhoto: Pauline Ruther
Bauhaus Music 2024Photo: Pauline Ruther
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Various workshops were being offered to school-aged children in the lead-up to the festival. For example, composer Cathy Milliken had had the pupils tell their stories and made them audible using very simple means. In another project, artists Alexandre Decoupigny and Claire Fristot worked with 11th-graders from the Carl von Ossietzky comprehensive school to grasp the principles of the Bauhaus by means of musical composition. Here, too, the focus lied in exploring how music relates to the lives and reality of the young participants. The results of the various projects were presented at the festival.