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Leipzig Jazz Days
Contemporary jazz from South Africa was the theme of this year's Leipzig Jazz Days. Because very few Germans are familiar with South African jazz, the organizers hoped that the musicians would offer audiences a more multi-facetted view of the South...
Marais
The Italian composer and performance artist Roberto Paci Dalò took his audiences on an acoustic-visual research excursion into the musical world of the Baroque composer Marin Marais. The viola da gamba works by Marais were performed by the gambist...
Concert - youth for youth
Over a period of three seasons (2005/06 to 2007/08), German and international youth orchestras performed a series of concerts at the Gewandhaus Leipzig. With these concerts, this project hoped to reach young audiences and increase their enthusiasm...
without borders
The ISCM World New Music Days composition competition is one of the most significant in the field of contemporary music which the International Society for Contemporary Music organises each year. The Society has selected its German Section to...
For the Birds
John Cage, one of the most influential artists of the 20th century, would have turned 100 years old in 2012. Cage rattled the conventions of contemporary composition of his times with his experimental actions, the use of coincidence in music and the...
Un/Ruhe – Freeplay 2016
The main event of Freeplay 2016 was the violin concert “Still” by the contemporary British composer Rebecca Saunders. The performance has been developed by Saunders herself together with the violinist Carolin Widmann, dancers from the company Sasha...
Female Voice of Iran
The music of Iran is an amalgamation of numerous Middle Eastern musical traditions, a blend of Arabian, Turkish, Armenian, Afghan and many other influences. Since the Islamic Revolution of 1979, Iran’s cultural life and especially musical scene have...
European Trip 2007
Although the c/o pop music festival in Cologne is enjoyed by enormous crowds every summer, it is by no means a generic mass event. With its particular focus on electronic music, the festival provides an overview of the current developments in the...
European Trip 2008
The c/o pop electronic music festival has focused on new approaches and trends in the European independent pop cultural scene since 2004. In 2008 c/o pop featured the project European Trip which aimed to intensify the festival's European networking...
Föhrenwald Part 2
The Föhrenwald settlement south of Munich has a unique history. Originally planned as a model settlement for German workers, it was used as a forced-labour camp in 1940, and after World War II, it became temporary housing for Jewish concentration...