“The Golden Twenties”: A night at the Moka Efti

One night in the legendary coffee house Moka Efti! Members of the Berliner Philharmoniker play dance music of the 1920s – foxtrots and shimmies, tangos and blues ballads. Kurt Weill is represented with three works, among them the Kleine Dreigroschenmusik. Stefan Wolpe’s Suite from the Twenties and Mátyás Seiber’s Two Jazzolettes reflect the jazz craze of the time. Between the works, Dagmar Manzel reads texts by Trude Hesterberg, Lotte Lenya and Josephine Baker.

Members of the Berliner Philharmoniker

Michael Hasel

Dagmar Manzel

Programme Guide

Artists

Michael Hasel flute, conductor

Noah Bendix-Balgley violin, composer

Kurt Weill composer

Mátyás Seiber composer

Stefan Wolpe composer

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