People flock together. Lovers, the curious, the odd fantasist. A tingling community. High-percentage stimulation in the hall too. Rimsky-Korsakov’s enchanting orchestral poem Scheherazade. Anna Clyne’s turbulent »Fractured Time«. A wave runs through the crowd. Some even dance. The orchestra strikes a chord. The clapping, the rhythm, a magical moment. Everyone together. Everyone now. Everything mega, everything KULT.
»Good evening and welcome to the radio show with the greatest hits from the last 500 years!« Something along these lines might well be the opening gambit for this concert, which school pupils have devised for other young people. Radio presenter Charlotte Oelschlegel leads us through a radio show with hits from a wide variety of different periods, along with historically accurate »news« and stories about concert life at that particular time. Everything from Bach and Mozart, to modern-day pop songs – the Orchester im Treppenhaus (Orchestra in the Stairwell), known for its unusual concert experiences, sets the scene for all of the evening’s works with great skill and spirit. An orchestra is an incredibly versatile thing, after all! The concert was devised and put together by pupils over the course of six workshops entitled »How to Concert«: They learned and put into practice everything that goes into planning a concert – from selecting a programme and artists through to lighting, staging and coming up with a title. Now they proudly present the result!
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