Premiere of Heiner Goebbels at Musik Fest. The German composer and conductor Heiner Goebbels has written the four-movement, ninety-minute orchestral cycle A House of Call. My Imaginary Notebook for the opening concert of Berlinerfestpiele, which will be performed on Monday 30 August at the Berlin Philarmonie by the Ensemble Modern…

20th edition of Les Solistes à Bagatelle. The three weekends between now, Saturday 28 August and 12 September, will see the 20th edition of the Les Solistes à Bagatelle piano festival, which takes place in the Parc de Bagatelle in the Bois de Boulogne in Paris. This edition, which would…

A new edition of the Berlin Musik Fest. A new edition of Berlin’s Musikfest begins tomorrow, Saturday, and runs until 20 September. Although it will remember Igor Stravinsky on the 50th anniversary of his death, the festival is characterised by the premieres of new works by contemporary composers, such as the…

Joseph Beuys centenary concerts. Since the beginning of this year, Germany has been immersed in the commemoration of the centenary of the birth of probably the most important German artist of the 20th century, Joseph Beuys. He was one of the great names who took part in the activities of…

A documentary on Yann Tiersen is broadcast. Yann Tiersen: Kerber – The Film, in which the Breton musician offers a sixty-minute visual and musical journey through the island of Ushant (Eusa, in Breton), where Yann Tiersen has lived for years, premieres today, 26 August, at 8 p.m. on the Live…

Matthew Aucoin premieres “The No One’s Rose”. Today, Wednesday 25th, the world premiere of The No One’s Rose, a combination of music, poetry, theatre and dance composed and conducted by the American Matthew Aucoin commissioned by the Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra will take place at Stanford University’s Bing Auditorium. Based on…

© Photograph by Deborah O’Grady downloaded from John Adams’ website. John Adams, director of the 2021 Ojai Festival. The seventy-fifth edition of the Ojai Festival which has been held annually since 1947 in the Californian town of Ojai, some seventy five miles north of Los Angeles, has had to be…

© Photograph downloaded from the Barbican Centre website. From left to right: Pharoah Sanders and Sam Shepherd (aka Floating Points). “Promises: Through Congress”, at the Barbican. Tomorrow, Tuesday, the Barbican Centre in London begins four days of open-air films that will take place in the London venue’s Sculpture Court. The…

© Photograph of Brinkhoff/Mögenburg showing Donoatienne Miche-Dansca downloaded from the press service of the Staatsoper Hamburg website. B. Lang premieres his opera “Playing Trump”. The world premiere of the Cheap Opera No. 2 ‘Playing Trump” by Austrian composer Bernhard Lang, a chamber opera for five instrumentalists with a libretto by…

© Photo downloaded from the press department of the Sonambiente website. Berlin’s Tegel airport, home of Sonambiente. On 8 November 2020, Berlin’s old Tegel Airport closed for good. To bid an “artistic” farewell to the air terminal, it was decided to organise a new edition of Sonambiente, a sound art…

© Photograph by Agnès Gania, courtesy of the artist. “Strumming Music” will be played on the Baltic. Hit a key on a piano with the sustain pedal pressed down, and you’ll hear the struck string ring out unencumbered. Add another note to make a chord, and the undamped strings will…

© Photograph by Fernando Pereira / Anefo, downloaded from Wikipedia. Luigi Nono’s “Intolleranza 1960”, in Salzburg. Luigi Nono, one of the leading composers of the so-called Darmstadt School who embraced integral serialism, joined the Italian Communist Party in 1952 and applied both revolutionary proposals to his musical compositions. This Sunday,…