László Moholy-Nagy and New Compositions

The Kurt Weill Zentrum Dessau presents the short films of the Bauhaus master and avant-garde artist László Moholy-Nagy: BERLINER STILLEBEN, GROSSTADT-ZIGEUNER, IMPRES-SIONEN VOM ALTEN MARSEILLER HAFEN, LICHTSPIEL SCHWARZ WEISS GRAU and LOBSTERS from the 1920s and 30s. Also: Lotte Reiniger's ORNAMENT DES VERLIEBTEN HERZENS and Walter Ruttmann's commercial EXCELSIOR-REIFEN UNVERWÜSTLICH. All films are accompanied by newly composed music. Introduction: Prof. Reinhild Steingröver (University of Rochester). Music: Bobby Mitchell (piano), Anyango Yarbo-Davenport (violin), Rick McRae (trombone), Agnieszka Dziubak (clarinet, cello), composed by Michaela Eremiasova and Jairo Duarte Lopez.

An event of the Kurt Weill Zentrum Dessau in cooperation with the Eastman School of Music/University of Rochester as well as the Landesvertretung Sachsen-Anhalt. (Julia Nickel) (Jan. 30)