The Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra started its season with a great Gala Concert conducted by music director Gustavo Dudamel. As special guest: star tenor Juan Diego Flórez. The programme includes popular arias by Rossini as well as famous songs by Latin-American composers. Programme: Rossini, Overture to ‘La gazza ladra’, Overture to ‘Semiramide’, ‘La Speranza piu soave’ from Semiramide, Overture to Guillaume Tell, ‘Asil ereditaire’ from Guillaume Tell; Granada (arr. Florez),’ La flor de la canela’; Mancayo,’ Huapango’; Grever (arr. Guinovart), ‘Jurame’; Gutierrez (arr. Pena), ‘Alma Ilanera’; Marquez, Danzon No. 2; Encores: Verdi, ‘La donna e mobile’ from Rigoletto; Gounod: ‘Ah, leve toi soleil’ from Romeo and Juliette.
Joy Denalane plays Avo Session
The daughter of a South African father and a German mother, Joy Denalane, was named the ‘Queen of German Soul’ by MTV, but her musical vision and stylistic diversity are more important to her than chart success. Good music runs deep.
Carlos Kleiber – I Am Lost To The World
Carlos Kleiber, the eccentric and reclusive conductor was a fabled perfectionist who was known as much for the rarity of his appearances as for the brilliance of his interpretations. Georg Wübbolt’s film sheds light on the relationships with his family, including his father and mother, traces the development of Kleiber’s career and covers the ‘mythologizing’ that started during the lifetime of the maestro.
Komeda – A Soundtrack for A Life
Krzysztof Komeda – Jazz pianist and film composer. With compositions like the lullaby for “Rosemary´s Baby” from Roman Polanski, Komeda succeeded in writing his own chapter in the history of soundtracks. As a Jazz musician he gained cult-status in Poland. As a film composer he made it into Hollywood’s first ranks. But there his career came to a sudden end. The film essay „KOMEDA – A SOUNDTRACK FOR A LIFE“ is a reflection on Komeda’s soundtracks, which changed the common film scores forever. It is a contemporary document about the attitude to life in a time of social, political and cultural change after war, about work and exodus of Polish artist in the 50s and 60s. Directors who worked with Komeda and who are also friends will talk about him: Roman Polanski, Jerzy Skolimowski, Henning Carlsen and Andrzej Wajda. His wife, Zofia Komeda, and his sister, Irena Orlowska, remember him.
The Infernal Comedy
The stage-play for a Baroque-Orchestra, two Sopranos and one actor is based on the real-life story of Jack Unterweger, a notorious womanizer and celebrated author and journalist, who was suspected of killing prostitutes in Vienna, Graz, Prague and Los Angeles; later vanished from Vienna, fled into the U.S., got arrested in Miami, transferred to Austria, accused and finally committed suicide after being convicted of homicide in eleven cases.
Inside The Infernal Comedy
John Leake, who spent 3 years researching the Unterweger case in minute detail (‘entering Hades’), in conversation with Michael Sturminger
the author and director of the Infernal Comedy. Martin Haselböck, the conductor of the Vienna Academy Orchestra, illuminates the beginnings and musical conception of this utterly new form with classical 18th century arias and the fate of a 20th century serial killer to create a profound evening of musical theatre. The truth and nothing
but the truth.
Roy Ayers plays Avo Session
Jazz Funk at its finest! In his 40-plus years as a vibraphonist, he has produced a string of soul and funk classics, like ‘We Live In Brooklyn Baby’ and ‘Everybody Loves the Sunshine,’which have arguably made him the second-most sampled musician in hip-hop, after James Brown. Joined by Mark Adams (Keys), Ray Gaskins (Saxophone), Donald Nicks (Bass), Troy Miller (Drums), John Pressley (Vocals) he will perform his legendary hits, as well as new songs.
Sanada Maitreya & The Nudge Nudge play Avo Session
Sananda Maitreya presents his music as ‘Post Millennium Rock’. Its main elements are heart and soul, its nature is passion, courage and curiosity and itknows no rules except to lead the listener back to his heart. Sananda started his career as Terence Trent D’Arby. At the Avo Session he proudly presents his new music, the albums ‘Angels & Vampires’, ‘Nigor Mortis’ and ‘The Sphinx’, with his two-man-orchestra: The Nudge Nudge.
Joe Jackson plays Avo Session
Post punk, pop, swing, jazz, latin, and classical: in the course of his 40-year career, Joe Jackson has always tried out whatever tickled his fancy. He took it for granted that he would never become a big star for the masses. Joe Jackson is an expert in his field and a master of his art who delights the music gourmets. At the Avo Session he performs with Graham Maby (Vocals, Bass) and Dave Houghton (Vocals, Drums, Percussion, Loops).
Element of Crime play Avo Session
The Berlin dialect is known as being extremely direct and full of slang, yet somehow it is still endearing. Element of Crime have become a chanson-rock institution with their eccentric, poetic wordplay and slightly melancholic melodies.