Schedule - Deutsche Oper Berlin
The Big band at the Musikfest Berlin / Berlin Philharmonie
Jazz de Paris
20th anniversary of the BigBand of the Deutsche Oper Berlin
Address of the Berliner Philharmonie:
Herbert-von-Karajan-Str. 1, 10785 Berlin
2 hrs / 1 interval
No surtitles
There will be a concert introduction (in German) at 6.15 pm in the South Foyer of the Philharmonie Berlin.
- Conductor
- Solo guitar
- Chansons
- Vocals and Violoncello
- With
A concert in cooperation with Berliner Festspiele / Musikfest Berlin. We are delighted to continue our collaboration with Rundfunk Berlin-Brandenburg and EuroArts at this year's Big Band concert as part of the Musikfest Berlin! ‘Jazz de Paris’ at the Philharmonie Berlin will be broadcast live on ‘radio3’ and will subsequently be released on CD and digitally on all major streaming platforms.
- Conductor
- Solo guitar
- Chansons
- Vocals and Violoncello
- With
On the programme
„April in Paris“ (1932)
Music: Vernon Duke (1903 – 1969)
Text: Yip Harburg (1896 – 1981)
Arrangement: Count Basie (1904 – 1984)
„Jazz de Paris“ (2025)
Music and Text: Rüdiger Ruppert
„Je bois“ (1956)
Music: Boris Vian (1920 – 1959), Alain Goraguer (1931 – 2023)
Text: Boris Vian
Arrangement: Manfred Honetschläger (*1959)
„Nuits de Saint-Germain-des-Prés“ (1951)
Music: Django Reinhardt (1910 – 1953)
Arrangement: Richard Bergmann
„Je suis snob” (1954)
Music: Jimmy Walter
Text: Boris Vian
Arrangement: Manfred Honetschläger
„Ne me quitte pas“ (1958)
Music: Jacques Brel (1929 – 1978), Gérard Jouannest (1933 – 2018)
Text: Jacques Brel
„Cherokee“ (1938)
Music: Ray Noble (1903 – 1978)
Arrangement: Peter Herbolzheimer (1935 – 2010)
„Quand ça balance“ (1964)
Music: Michel Legrand
Text: Eddy Marnay (1920 – 2003)
Arrangement: Manfred Honetschläger
„La femme coupé en morceaux“ –
from the movie „Les Demoiselles de Rochefort“ (1967)
Music: Michel Legrand
Text: Jacques Demy (1931 – 1990)
Arrangement: Manfred Honetschläger
*** Intermission ***
„Au bar Le Tabou” (2025)
Music and Text: Rüdiger Ruppert
„Le petit journal“ (1992)
Music and Arrangement: Michel Legrand
„Nuages“ (1940)
Music: Django Reinhardt
Arrangement: Joan Reinders (*1959)
„Djangology“ (1949)
Music: Django Reinhardt
Arrangement: Jan Wessels (*1964)
„Le Blues du blanc” (1984)
Music: Pierre Papadiamandis (1937 – 2022)
Text: Eddy Mitchell (*1942), Thomas Pigor (*1956)
Arrangement: Konrad Koselleck (*1971)
„What are you doing the rest of your life?”
from the movie „The happy ending” (1969)
Music: Michel Legrand
Text: Alan Bergman (1925 – 2025), Marilyn Bergman (1928 – 2022)
Arrangement: Manfred Honetschläger
„Ray Blues“ (1982)
Music and Arrangement: Michel Legrand
„Daphné“ (1937)
Music: Django Reinhardt
Arrangement: Joan Reinders
„Nous voyageons de ville en ville“
from the movie „Les Demoiselles de Rochefort“ (1967)
Music: Michel Legrand
Text: Jacques Demy
Arrangement: Manfred Honetschläger
The BigBand of the Deutsche Oper Berlin is celebrating its 20th anniversary with a programme dedicated to French jazz. During the German occupation, it stood for freedom and resistance, and in the post-war period it became the soundtrack of existentialism and an expression of the attitude to life of an entire generation: in the nightclubs of Saint-Germain-des-Prés, musicians like Miles Davis and Sidney Bechet met Jean-Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir and Boris Vian. Juliette Gréco was the undisputed muse of the Bohemians – and for many jazz musicians from the USA, Paris became a place of yearning, beyond racial segregation and the McCarthy era. The BigBand of the Deutsche Oper Berlin celebrates the spirit of those years with music by Michel Legrand, Jacques Brel, Boris Vian and Django Reinhardt.
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