Kleine zaal
-- Doors open 19:15
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Performers
Geert Mak - journalist, writer
Ramon van Engelenhoven - piano - Part of Serie Scherpdenkers
Geert Mak & Ramon van Engelenhoven
America: a democracy saved
- Classical
- Klassiek Seizoen 26-27
- Piano
- Spreker
- Verdieping (lezing debat toelichting)
- Vocaal
Tickets
- Ticket (Rang 1) €36,00
- Ticket (Rang 2) €29,00
- Ticket (Rang 3) €24,00
At the end of the 1920s, the American stock market crashed, plunging the United States into a deep financial crisis. Misery was widespread, industrial production stagnated, unemployment rose to twenty-five per cent, and democracy was under pressure. Franklin D. Roosevelt took office as President of the United States in 1932 and launched the social and economic rescue plan that became known as “The Deal”. No one can tell this story better than historian and America expert Geert Mak. His words are accompanied by piano music and songs by American composers George Gershwin, Aaron Copland, Erich Korngold and Igor Stravinsky. Ramon van Engelenhoven will be at the grand piano, but who will be singing is still a surprise.
Roosevelt strengthened ties with Europe. Interest in “the old world” grew and, under his presidency, translated into a symphonic poem such as Gershwin’s “An American in Paris”. The “Symphony in Three Movements” is considered Stravinsky’s first major composition after his emigration to the United States, in which the threat of the Second World War played a role. Aaron Copland, born and raised in America, is considered the most important representative of the American Moderns, the cultural movement that represented the social rise of the middle class. Erich Korngold, originally from Austria but naturalised as an American, made his name primarily as a composer of film music.
Programme
Gershwin – 3 Preludes (1926)
Stravinsky from Symphony in Three Movements:
Con Moto (arr. Van Engelenhoven)
Copland – tba
Korngold – Fünf Lieder op. 38
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- Doors open 19:15
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Performers
Geert Mak - journalist, writer
Ramon van Engelenhoven - piano - Part of Serie Scherpdenkers
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