On death and children
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This year’s edition of the International Spring Orchestra Festival is themed around the Bauhaus movement and takes inspiration from Egon Schiele’s Death and the Maiden. Adam Brimmer interviews artistic director Karl Fiorini. This year’s theme for the fOn death and children
This year’s edition of the International Spring Orchestra Festival is themed around the Bauhaus movement and takes inspiration from Egon Schiele’s Death and the Maiden. Adam Brimmer interviews artistic director Karl Fiorini. This year’s theme for the festival is Bauhaus, which apart from the eponymous band is more tied to a design/architectural movement rather than a musical one. What made you pick this theme? Although the bond between the programme and the movement might seem subtle, it is a strong one. The term ‘Bauhaus’ came to me in my teenage years when I was fascinated by the discovery of new repertoire and composers; their lives, their friendships. A case in point was Gustav Mahler, whose still young widow, Alma, married the architect Walter Gropius, the founder of Bauhaus. At the age of 13 or 14, the expression caught my attention in a very vivid way. However, it was only a couple of years ago when I was looking more attentively at this movement that it struck me that in a few years’ time Bauhaus would turn a century in 2019. I started thinking about repertoire connected with or written during that period, which embraced New-Objective and Modernist tendencies. However,... Read more