Berlin 15-07-2010
Two views of the ‘Gendarmenmarkt’ in Berlin by Uli Klose of BerlinProPhoto | berlinprophoto.de
From 15th to 20th July 2010 on Berlin’s historical and scenic square, the Gendarmenmarkt, [see 2 photos above] will provide the setting for the 2010 ‘Classic Open Air-Festival’.
This is 19th time that this festival – which includes international soloists, orchestras and dancers, entertains music lovers from Germany and around the world – is held here.
While it may seem a bit like the Promenade Concerts which are held every year in London, these concerts appear to want to take the classics down market to the every-man.
The ‘Promenade Concerts’ or usually referred to as the ‘Proms’, were the series of London concerts founded in 1895 by Robert Newman and the conductor Henry Wood – a festival known today as the BBC Proms – the term originally referred to concerts in the pleasure gardens of London where the audience could stroll about while listening to the music.
For this year’s opening night or ‘First Night’, as the annual opening concert is called, the programme is given over to popular melodies from opera, operetta and orchestral works.
The audience will have the chance to have their say on the actual programme by voting in advance for their favourite works.
Hosting the evening is the entertainer ‘Herbert Feuerstein’ and each evening concert will end with a firework display.
‘Lucia Aliberti’ will take charge of the 2nd evening concert with selected operatic arias from the works by the Italian opera composers of the 19th century, Verdi, Puccini and Rossini.
Her male singing-partner on the evening will be young Icelandic tenor’ Egill Palsson’.
The ‘Brandenburgische Staatsorchester Frankfurt an der Oder’ will be playing under the its principal conductor of Howard Griffiths.
The concert on 17th July will pay homage to the Russian composer Tchaikovsky.
With soloists and award-winners from the ‘ Kammeroper Schloss Rheinsberg’, choir and ballet accompanied by the ‘Anhaltische Philharmonie Dessau’, the evening will interpret a medley of his unforgettable ballet and symphonic works.
Glenn Miller’s famous signature call to his band will provide the theme for the great Berlin Swing Night on the 18th July called – “Let it Swing!”
Bands ‘Andrej Hermlin and his Swing Dance Orchestra’ and ‘Tom Gaebel & His Big Band’ will present evergreen classics from the heyday of swing by Glenn Miller,Count Basie, Benny Goodman, Artie Shaw,Duke Ellington and Frank Sinatra.
Helen Schneider, a German swing and jazz singer of our time has spent her lifetime on all the great jazz stages of this world will appear as the star host of a truly swinging evening.
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