JMI LIVE! Concerts, Performances and Live Events
From Vienna to Weimar
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Wednesday 27 January,
7.30 pm
Weimar Voices
Christian Immler, Baritone
Helmut Deutsch, Piano
Songs by exceptionally popular composers of the period
Schreker,
Gál
Goldschmidt
Eisler
Korngold
Krenek
Zemlinsky
Grosz
Thursday 28 January 7.30pm
Chamber Contrasts
Players from the Aurora Orchestra
Alexandra Wood, Violin
Hindemith: Quartet for clarinet, violin, cello and piano
Krenek: Serenade op.4
Weill arr. Frenkel: Seven pieces from The Threepenny Opera
Schoenberg arr. Webern:Chamber Symphony No.1
Friday 29 January 7.30pm
Lyric Suites Artis-Quartett Wien
Wellesz: String Quartet No.3 (UK premiere)
Berg: Lyric Suite
Weigl: String Quartet No.5
Zemlinsky: String Quartet No.4
Saturday 30 January
Study day
With guest speakers Erik Levi (Royal Holloway University of London), Professor Peter Franklin (University of Oxford), Professor Douglas Jarman (Royal Northern College of Music) and Dr Guido Heldt (University of Bristol).
Saturday 30 January Evening concert 7.30pm
Stylistic Crossroads
Aurora Orchestra
Nicholas Collon / Conductor
Clio Gould / Violin
Hindemith: Kammermusik No.1
Schreker: Chamber Symphony
Weill: Violin Concerto
Korngold: Much Ado About Nothing: Suite
Saturday 30 January 10.00pm
Cabaret After Dark
Late-night Cabaret concert,
Aurora Orchestra
Loré Lixenberg / Mezzo-Soprano
Nicholas Collon / Conductor
Cabaret music by Holländer, Spoliansky, Weill and others
FILMS
There will be a daily screening in the St Pancras Room of a silent Weimar classic (English intertitles) followed by a ‘talkie’ (German dialogue with English subtitles)
Wednesday 27 January, 7.30pm – 9.15pm
Die Dreigroschenoper (The Threepenny Opera, dir. G.W. Pabst, adapted from Bertolt Brecht play, music Kurt Weill, 1931, 105').
Wednesday 27 January, 9.30pm – 10.43pm
Menschen am Sonntag (People on Sunday, dir. Robert Siodmak et al, new orch. score Elena Kats-Chernin, 1929, 73').
Thursday 28 January, 7.30pm – 9.25pm
Das Testament des Dr. Mabuse (The Testament of Dr. Mabuse, dir. Fritz Lang, 1933, 115').
Thursday 28 January, 9.30pm prompt – 11.00pm
Asphalt (dir. Joe May, new orch. score Karl-Ernst Sasse, 1929, 90').
Friday 29 January, 7.30pm – 9.08pm
Der Blaue Engel (The Blue Angel, dir. Josef von Sternberg, music Friedrich Hollaender et al, adapted from Heinrich Mann novel, 1930, 108')
Friday 29 January, 9.45pm – 10.50pm
Berlin, die Sinfonie der Grossstadt (Symphony of the City, dir. Walther Ruttmann, music Edmund Meisel, 1927, 65').
Saturday 30 January, 5.00pm – 6.58pm
Metropolis (dir. Fritz Lang, original score Gottfried Huppertz, arr. Berndt Heller, 1927, 118').
Saturday 30 January, 7.30pm – 8.59pm
Berlin Alexanderplatz (dir. Phil Jutzi, adapted from Alfred Döblin novel, 1931, 89').
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