Walking concert through three halls

Listening more consciously and intensely connecting with an acoustic environment — who wouldn't want that when attending a concert? In a pre-concert workshop, you can get to know “deep listening” using the method of composer and musicologist Pauline Oliveros and then try it out right away.

After music by Renaissance composer Thomas Tallis and his English compatriot Ralph Vaughan Williams, 88 members of our orchestra mingle with the audience in the Great Hall for “Terretektorh” — a spectacular, rarely heard work that “envelops you in sound and music and creates physical closeness,” says composer Iannis Xenakis. Further stages of the concert invite you to enjoy a movement from Mozart's otherworldly “Gran Partita” and to sink into the arms of the god of dreams Morpheus with Eleanor Alberga before our drummers bring everyone back into their bodies and into the here and now with Steve Reich.

At the end of the opening evening, a party between “ritual, club night and controlled escalation” awaits the audience with the Berlin duo TEKNOIR (Jan Westermann/ Ingo Reddemann).

Program: Thomas Tallis: “Why fum'th in fight”, arranged for brass ensemble; Ralph Vaughan Williams: Fantasy on a theme by Thomas Tallis; Iannis Xenakis: “Terretektorh” for 88 musicians spread around the room