Museum im Kloster invites you to a concert on 28 June
The Museum im Kloster Frankenberg invites you to an extraordinary jazz concert on 28 June at 5 pm. "Fables of Jazz" is a Kassel quartet made up of experienced and well-known jazz musicians, each of whose programmes is dedicated to the work of a great jazz musician or jazz-related composer. In this concert, the quartet would like to recall the fascinating variety of compositions by this unique great.
Making pieces resonate
With tenor saxophone, piano, double bass and percussion, the ensemble endeavours to make melodically, harmonically and formally unconventional pieces resonate. One of the now eight programmes is dedicated to the important American composer and brilliant pianist George Gershwin. Gershwin, who was born in 1889 and died prematurely in 1937, is regarded alongside Charles Ives and Aaron Copland as one of the most important figures in US music history.
None other than Arnold Schönberg, who emigrated to the USA in 1933, considered him to be the greatest authentic musical genius of his time, next to or after himself, of course. In addition to the extensive opera Porgy and Bess and several major orchestral works such as Rhapsody in Blue, An American in Paris and the Piano Concerto in F major, his oeuvre included a large number of songs, mostly from Broadway musicals, which quickly became extraordinarily popular and which have been and still are enthusiastically used by almost all jazz musicians for their interpretations.
The quartet Fables of Jazz will perform an extraordinary jazz concert at the Museum im Kloster Frankenberg: Hannes Volkhardt (double bass), Jörg Damm (drums), Klaus Wenderoth (piano) and Helmut Schäfer (saxophone) will perform. Admission is 19 euros. Tickets are available at the museum box office. Information and reservations can be made by calling 0151 20551597. Further information can be found here.