Lied ~ Jazz ~ Poetry by Amanda Becker
let me LIED you
Music showed me ways to connect people. Music taught me that I am able to create these connections.
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let me LIED you
is an invitation to become part of such connections - musicians as well as people in the audience. This interdisciplinary concert series creates the opportunity to listen to classical Lied and Jazz standards as a dialogue and moreover musically improvises over lyrics and poems by feminist writers. One of the cores of Lied and also of many Jazz standards are the lyrics. It is remarkable how similar the lyrics of those two genres can be and we found a way to combine selected Lied pieces with Jazz standards in one performance. As a jazz vocalist and a classical singer Amanda Becker is capable of making this connection together with classical pianists and a Jazz band. We want to interest a wide audience to cross boarders, to think more interdisciplinary and intersectionally and to make a link between something political and culture through music.
„Poetry is the way we help give name to the nameless so it can be thought. The farthest external horizons of our hopes and fears are cobbled by our poems, carved from the rock experiences of our daily lives.“
Audre Lorde
