TEMPO OF RECOLLECTION - Hosfeld Artist Management
TEMPO OF RECOLLECTION - Hosfeld Artist Management
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<strong>TEMPO</strong> <strong>OF</strong> <strong>RECOLLECTION</strong><br />
Music of Erwin Schulhoff<br />
Music of Erwin Schulhoff<br />
Tempo di Fox a la Hawaii from Rag-music, op. 41<br />
Beginning from backstage, the first piece of music heard in Tempo of Recollection is the<br />
“Tempo di Fox a la Hawaii,” for solo piano. It is music intended for the dancehall, light<br />
and whimsical in nature, clearly jazz inspired. During the performance of this short<br />
piece, the piano is swung out onto the stage enabling the quality of the sound to change<br />
from distant to more present. This piece is used to signal the end of the opening speech<br />
by the Schulhoff scholar as well as to begin to transport the audience out of their normal<br />
time and place, into a backwards timeline during which the world of the 21 st century<br />
melts away and the dancehall feel of the 1920s begins to emerge.<br />
Tocata sur le Shimmy “Kitten on the Keys” from Cinq etudes de jazz<br />
Once the “Tempo di Fox a la Hawaii” has concluded, the pianist immediately<br />
follows that with the “Tocata sur le Shimmy ‘Kitten on the<br />
Keys’”, a raucous, jazz-inspired virtuoso show piece. Now that the pianist<br />
is on stage, this volcanic piece fuels the energy that drives the<br />
overwhelming moving images projected onto the back curtain.<br />
Slightly chaotic, it matches the whirlwind feeling of being pulled back<br />
in time through some of the most traumatic events of 20 th century<br />
Europe.<br />
Alla Marcia militaristica in modo Europaico<br />
A string quartet plays “Alla Marcia militaristica in<br />
modo Europaico”, a short work, mocking in tone of a<br />
goosestepping European military procession. This is a<br />
previously unrecorded fragment of a work by Schulhoff.<br />
During this piece, which the musicians play from<br />
memory, the mover/dancers combine with the musicians<br />
to create the picture of a transport train, visually<br />
and musically briefly representing the military oppression<br />
of Eastern Europe during World War II and the<br />
loses of the Holocaust.<br />
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