BERTOLT BRECHT’S J.B.

Bertolt Brecht’s Baden play for learning-Das Badener Lehrstück vom Einverständnis —is so named for having been first performed at the Baden-Baden music festival in 1929, and because it falls among his early Marxist plays with an explicitly didactic function. Einverständnis means agreement or acceptance. The piece was given at Baden-Baden accompanied by a score written by Hindemith, and in a shorter form than the version published in Brecht’s Stücke. Hermann Scherchen conducted. The premier created a great scandal, marked especially by the exit of Gerhar Hauptmann in the middle of the Clown Scene.