Tickets from £20, soon available to book via the TORCH website.

Tom Kuhn and John Harle present a spectacular programme of poems and songs, including music by Weill and Eisler and climaxing in a concert performance of Hanns Eisler’s Scenes from the War Primer. With the Bauhaus Band of the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, chorus and soloists, and featuring Marc Almond.

The Bauhaus

The Bauhaus School of Art, Architecture and Design (1919-1933) channelled the 20th century's revolutionary technological changes into a school of learning that reframed the position of the artist as an artisan working in a community of other makers. Under the leadership of Walter Gropius, it became one of the most vital expressions of art, design and pedagogy under the Weimar Republic, where a renewed reverence was applied to everyday life, the objects that comprise it and the methods with which they were produced. Gropius’s core objective was to reimagine the material world to reflect the unity of all the arts through craft, “the artist is an exalted craftsman. In rare moments of inspiration, moments beyond the control of their will may cause his work to blossom into art. But proficiency in their craft is essential to every artist. Therein lies the source of creative imagination.” (Walter Gropius/Bauhaus Manifesto/April 1919) - (https://www.johnharle.com/blogs.htm)