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- Artist: Peter Geisselbrecht & Friends: An den kleinen Radioapparat
- Date: 09/30/16
- Time: 8:00pm
- Venue: Firehouse Space
- City: Brooklyn
- Address: 246 Frost Street Brooklyn, NY 11211
- Venue phone: thefirehousespace@gmail.com
- Country: United States
- Age restrictions: All Ages
- Notes: Peter Geisselbrecht, born 1954, studied music in Cologne (piano, composition, improvisation) under Klaus Oldemeyer, Joachim Blume, Vinko Globokar and Klaus Runze. He specializes in 20th century piano music, and frequently tours with a program of compositions by victims and contemporaries of the Nazi regime. As an improviser he works primarily with musicians who are equally versed in free improvisation, jazz and contemporary classical music. Since 1985 he teaches piano and improvisation at Giessen University, Germany. In a rare appearance at The Firehouse Space in NYC, German Pianist Peter Geisselbrecht will present songs by Brecht / Eisler expressing solitude, grieving and longing of the refugee – sung by Dafna Naphtali and Gisburg. A selection from Geisselbrecht’s CD with works by composer Federico Mompoú refer to a poem by Juan de la Cruz in which the poet describes a music that is the voice of the silence itself, while the solitude itself becomes music. Longing is also the theme of traditional Persian singing presented by composer Saman Samadi, in a poem about homesickness by Mahmoud Davoudi. The second part of the evening will see a collective improvisation by the participants, including Loui Terrier and Hans Tammen.