CANCELLED due to Coronavirus - Korngold and Zemlinsky

Anyone who wants to know what music sounds like for the book Twenty Thousand Miles Under the Sea should definitely listen to Die Seejungfrau. Lush, late-romantic music that at times evokes a mysterious, dark world, beginning deep at the bottom of the sea. All in response to a Hans Christian Andersen fairy tale, and at the same time Zemlinsky's rendition of his impossible love for the unattainable Alma Schindler. Impossible, because Alma chose Gustav Mahler. Truly a piece in which you can immerse yourself in the fairy-tale atmospheres below the water table, that cliché exceptionally does justice to the music today. Following this, the violinist will solo in the increasingly popular Violin Concerto by Erich Korngold, an Austro-Hungarian composer who fled from the Nazis and created a furor in Hollywood as a composer of film music, including for The Adventures of Robin Hood and Captain Blood. Snippets of that emerge in his Violin Concerto.