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The Out-of-Towners.(Berlin in Lights)(Concert review)

The New Yorker

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Berlin in Lights, a gloriously omnivorous music-and-arts festival that recently unfolded in and around Carnegie Hall, took its title from Kurt Weill's 1928 song "Berlin im Licht." In a concert devoted to the nineteen-twenties music of Weill and Hanns Eisler, the Austrian composer-vocalist HK Gruber growled "Berlin im Licht" in appropriately rough, disillusioned style, arching his eyebrows for the lines "That's no cozy little spot / That's quite a city." Indeed, it was no cozy little classical-music oasis that Clive Gillinson, Carnegie's executive director, offered New York for seventeen days in November, in his most ambitious project since arriving on the job, in 2005. We ...

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