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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...
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...
