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Jazzwerkstatt Around the World
In recent years, Berlin has witnessed the rise of a jazz scene with a distinctive, recognizable sound. The music by such artists as Aki Takase, Rudi Mahall, Gerhard Gschlößl and many others, is now known here and abroad as “German jazz” and has a...
Israel in Egypt
George Frideric Handel rendered the biblical story of Israel’s exodus from Egypt in his 1738 oratorio “Israel in Egypt”. Werner Ehrhardt now integrated this story, described in the Old Testament and Torah and alluded to in the Koran, into an...
Sound! – Start
The New Music Network kicked off its project in Hamburg with a concert at the Rolf Liebermann Studio at the NDR broadcasting company and a large festival event at Kampnagel. On Saturday, 27 September, the Asko Ensemble, the Ensemble Resonanz and the...
Sound Bridge
Works of contemporary art reflect how a nation currently sees itself. It seems that multinational collaboration on contemporary compositions would be particularly suited to motivating young musicians from various countries to become familiar with the...
Julio Estrada: Murmullos del Páramo
This music theatre piece based on Juan Rulfo's famous novel Petro Páramo is the result of 15 years of studies and concert projects carried out by the composer Julio Estrada. Following the long-awaited world premiere in Madrid in May 2006, German...
Places – Mekomot
There are many synagogues in Germany and Eastern Europe which survived the years of National Socialism but are now vacant or used for other purposes. A new concert tour aimed to revitalise these abandoned places, or “mekomot”, as they’re called in...
Pèlerinages Kunstfest Weimar 2007
"Souvenir" was the motto of this year's Kunstfest Weimar. Denoting memory, "souvenir" in its various expressions could be found throughout the musical journey awaiting visitors at pèlerinages 2007, which, for the first time, included jazz and Klezmer...
Mediterranean Voices
The Mediterranean – a transcultural region spanning three continents, the birth place of three world religions and the cradle of democracy. It is an area of the world where cultures clash, a place in constant flux and turmoil which strongly...
La Monte Young & Marian Zazeela. The Just Alap Raga Ensemble in a Dream House Setting
La Monte Young (*1935) and Marian Zazeela (*1940) are among the most influential representatives of the 1960s American avant-garde and musical minimalism. Their legendary Dream House of 1962, a potentially never-ending sound and light installation,...
Kommeno
In 2008 the percussionist Günter Baby Sommer attended a concert in the Greek village of Kommeno. While he was there, his hosts told him that the village of 600 inhabitants had been the site of a massacre during World War II. Soldiers of the German...