XBerg & Du: the festival for you and Kreuzberg

XBerg & Du: the festival for you and Kreuzberg

A festival organised by young people and young adults from Kreuzberg, entirely inspired by their ideas: That is “Xberg & Du”. The Berliner Philharmoniker initiated the “Xberg & Du” project together with local cooperation partners. The event planning and content programme for the festival is in the hands of young people. The result is a colourful festival programme with music, breakdancing, poetry slam, photo box, photo exhibition, a wheel of fortune and much more. Delicious catering is also provided. Admission is free and there is one free drink per person.

Thank You For The Music: ABBA Symphonic

From "Mamma Mia" to "Dancing Queen": The stirring hits of the Swedish pop icons make hearts dance. The WDR Funkhausorchester brings back the glamor of the ABBA era and lets the band's biggest successes shine in a new symphonic light.

Thank You For The Music: ABBA Symphonic + Livestream

From 'Mamma Mia' to 'Dancing Queen,' the captivating hits of the Swedish pop icons get hearts dancing. The WDR Funkhausorchester revives the brilliance of the ABBA era, letting the band's greatest successes shine anew in symphonic light.

"Cantabile" — Light classical music for dementia patients and their relatives

In cooperation with the Alzheimer Society Bamberg, members of the Bamberg Symphony Orchestra perform a program of well known, intuitive works of classical music for dementia patients and their relatives.Admission is free. Registration by phone via 0951 8680169 or by mail to info@alzheimer-bamberg.de.

Ultraschall – Festival for new Music

Vladimir Jurowski sees himself as a politically aware artist who intervenes and takes a stand on current events. The RSB’s concert at Ultraschall Berlin is therefore particularly characterised by current affairs.Olga Rayeva: On the seaMany of her compositions deal with the theme of the sea. This is no coincidence: her early childhood is deeply connected with two cities: Moscow, where there is no sea, and Mariupol, where her mother’s parents lived at the time. She was always very happy in Mariupol and dreamed her whole life of being back there one day, near the somewhat murky, green Sea of Azov. She would then walk along an alleyway in this southern city to the small theatre…Now neither the theatre nor the town itself exists.This is a personal tragedy for Olga. The events of the last few years have destroyed her to a large extent internally. And the only way for a composer to deal with trauma is to write music.Elnaz Seyedi: a mark of our breathElnaz Seyedi’s compositions are influenced by literature, architecture and the visual arts as well as her studies in computer science. The sounds often oscillate between rigour and delicacy. Her work “a mark of our breath” was premiered as part of the concert series ‘Miniatures of Time’ – a series of twelve short orchestral pieces commissioned by Westdeutscher Rundfunk from various composers. They all deal with issues of our time, such as sustainability or the coronavirus crisis. Elnaz Seyedi himself writes about a mark of our breath:“The composition was created in 2021 during a stay in Wendland. Inspired by the expansive view with three quarters of the sky, which is different in every weather and every time of day, but actually always spectacular, and a landscape with a rich spectrum of green and later in autumn of yellow. The piece begins in this peaceful landscape, which gradually breaks up from within. The human voices – played and sung simultaneously in the brass instruments – are on the one hand part of this landscape, enriching it with their very special colour. On the other hand, their flipside is the destruction of the seemingly original.”Farzia Fallah “Traces of a Burning Mass” for orchestraLike Seyedi, Farzia Fallah was also born in Iran. Her orchestral work, for which she received the Heidelberg Women Artists’ Prize, was written during the protests against the violent death of Mahsa Amini in police custody in autumn 2022: musical traces of a burning, angry, freedom-loving mass. The concert can be heard on the radio on the following dates:Deutschlandfunk Kultur: 18 January 2024, 8:03 pm rbbKultur: 12 March 2024, 11:03 pm About the festival:The “Ultraschall – Festival for New Music” presents recently created works in a music-historical context that goes back to the beginnings of the post-war avant-garde, a period that now spans more than 70 years.In recent years, more and more premieres and first performances have been presented at the festival, and some of the works are also commissioned by the festival, but the approach remains the same: to give space to current trends in contemporary music and at the same time to categorise these current productions in terms of music history.

Ultraschall – Festival for New Music

At the Movies: for heroes and lovers

The SummerConcerts powered by VriendenLoterij present two months of wonderful concerts, from classical to jazz and from pop music to film scores. Top musicians from the Netherlands and around the world bring you all your favourite classical pieces, as well as tributes to Leonard Cohen and The Beatles, and all your favourite film music.We also present a host of young talent in our summer concerts, including youth orchestras from South Africa and Turkey, and top young classical soloists. After many of the concerts, we offer a meet-and-greet with the artists in an informal setting, or an afterparty with DJ in the Entrance Hall. In one of the world’s finest concert halls, there’s something for everyone this summer at The Concertgebouw!

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