75th Conference of the Institute for New Music and Music Education in Darmstadt

Darmstadt ⋅ The Institute for New Music and Music Education in the Academy of Music is currently celebrating its 75th conference with the usual diversity. Musicians, music educators and guests can get a taste of a concentrated charge of zeitgeist, reflected in music and processed in scientific and philosophical lectures. One of the greetings at the opening on Thursday evening came from Wolfram Knauer from the Darmstadt Jazz Institute. At this conference, “all questions about making music would be taken seriously in a fun way,” he praised the “Easter Bunny Conference”, which was delayed this year due to the corona virus.

The focus of the meeting until Sunday is interpretation. Cellist Wolfgang Lessing, who at the beginning of the ceremony in the Small Hall played an excerpt from Bernd Alois Zimmermann’s Sonata for Solo Cello (1960) in the truest sense of word embodied. Till Knipper, chairman of the Institute for New Music, earned a lot of laughs when he said afterwards, “Imagine this being played by a computer program”.

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