MUNICH CHAMBER ORCHESTRA/MÜNCHENER KAMMERORCHESTER

TRAILER/Experimental/Documentary, 26min

STORY

While modern and contemporary art have long been accepted as belonging to varied "environments" including  public space, contemporary music is still attached to its self-created "ghetto" - the concert hall. Any risk of bringing contemporary music to the streets is up to the musicians as well as to the audience.

This risk has been taken by the Munich Chamber Orchestra and its artistic director Alexander Liebreich with the Streetmusic Project: On October 12th and 13th 2007, the Chamber Orchestra performed at different locations around the city of Munich, Germany, playing works by Erhan Sanri, Gideon Klein, Alfred Schnitke, Luciano Berio, John Adams and Tom Johnson.

The emotions in the faces of both the musicians and the passers-by reflect the music and show an active participation in music, often absent in the cultural mainstream. Contemporary music as remembrance, as a witness to the 20th century, to the holocaust, to modernity.

The film grants access for a wide audience to contemporary music through the precise dramaturgy created by the compositions. The movie illustrates the relevance of cultural production in relation to society and politics.

CREDITS

Director, Cinematographer, Editor: Michal Kosakowski
Concept: Michal Kosakowski, Uli Aigner
Producer: Michal Kosakowski Productions

Munich Chamber Orchestra

Artistic Director: Alexander Liebreich
Chamber Orchestra: Daniel Giglberger, Max Peter Meis, Gesa Harms, Bernhard Jestl, Viktor Konjaev, Mario Korunic, Romuald Kozik, Mary Mader, Eri Nakagawa-Hawthorne, Kelvin Hawthorne, Stefan Berg, Maria Hristova, Nancy Sullivan, Peter Bachmann, Benedikt Jira, Michael Weiss, Onur Özkaya

Music

Erhan Sanri (*1957)
Vier Vertonungen visueller Gedichte und eine visuelle Phantasie
für Violine und Kontrabass (1986/1991)

Tom Johnson (*1939)
Formulas für Streichquartett (1994)

Alfred Schnittke (1934-1998)
Streichtrio (1985)

John Adams (*1947)
Shaker Loops 1. Satz - Fassung für Streichorchester
(1978, revised 1982)

Tom Johnson (*1939)
Eight Patterns For Eight Instruments (1979)

Luciano Berio (1925-2003)
Duetti per due violini (1979-1983)

Bernhard Jestl (*1960)
Das Spiel der Wolken und des Regens für Violine und Viola (1996)
- Uraufführung -

Gideon Klein (1919-1945)
Streichtrio (1944)

Gideon Klein (1919-1945)
Partita für Streichorchester (1944, arr. 1990)

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• Klassik
• München
• klassische Musik
• Experiment
• Alexander Liebreich
• Strasse
• Stadt
• Bayern
• Deutschland
• Zeitgenössische Musik

[chuspita2009]

I love it!!!! 

[germanborat]

is Viktor Konjaev the father of Dimitri? if yes theyr both great musicians!!