4. Sinfoniekonzert by Shostakovich, Šulhov, Bernstein, Gershwin, wo. 29 mrt 2023, Van (2023/2023), Dirigent Chin-Chao Lin, Meininger Theater, Meiningen, Duitsland

While “cool” is popular today, people wanted to be “hot” in the 1920s and 1930s. That also applied to music. Finally, America, poor in old traditions, had something of its own to offer: jazz. In Europe, some composers noticed that entertainment needed its place alongside the radical purification of late romanticism. They tried in various ways to integrate "hot" rhythms into their works and thus to create a first "jazz meets classic". Four such representatives can be heard in the 4th symphony concert. It starts with Dmitri Shostakovich's Jazz Suite No. 2 from 1928. Anyone who deals with Shostakovich today knows him primarily as an abysmal, macabre observer of his time and as a critic of the regime. Few know that he also liked to devote himself to the cheerful muse. In the same year, the Czech-born Erwin Schulhoff composed his "Hot Sonata", here in an arrangement for saxophone and orchestra with the internationally active Fabian Pablo Müller. In the wild 1920s, Schulhoff was considered the enfant terrible of modernism – his death in a Bavarian concentration camp in 1942 caused him to be unjustly forgotten. With Leonard Bernstein and George Gershwin in the second part, the two most important American composers are on the program. Bernstein's 1980 Divertimento was a 100th birthday present. Birthday to his Boston Symphony Orchestra. At the end, the American Gershwin strolls through the Paris of 1938, amused and alienated.