Kurt Weill
Berlin im Licht-Song
(1928)
for voice and Jazz-instruments
Duration: 5'
Autor: Kurt Weill
Bearbeitung: Otto Lindemann
Solos:
Gesang
Instrumentation details:
1 1 2 0 - 0 2 2 0 - perc - bjo, harm, pno, 2 alto-, tenor sax(Bb), str
Weill - Berlin im Licht-Song for voice and Jazz-instruments
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Work introduction
As part of the Berlin Festival of September 1928, the gas and electricity companies of the city staged a huge festival of light under the title “Berlin in Light”. This advertisement for modern technology, and for modernity itself, was designed to demonstrate Berlin’s economic and cultural vitality, only ten years after the defeat and humiliations of 1918. Kurt Weill wrote Berlin im Licht for voice and jazz instruments for the occasion.