MUSIK AM 13. Collaborative concert

Programme

Cornelius Cardew 1936–81
The Great Learning (1971) – First Stuttgart performance

Pupils from the Solitude Gymnasium Weilimdorf
Students from the High School of Music Stuttgart
BACHCHOR STUTTGART
Hannes Seidl, Yvonne Vollmer, Felix Sorg, rehearsal conductors
Jörg-Hannes Hahn, conductor

Introduction 6.15pm: Hannes Seidl

About the programme

“The Great Learning” is a book by Confucius, and the title of Cornelius Cardew’s major work. Throughout his life, the musician underwent a learning process quite unlike any other British composer in its rigour. “The Great Learning” explores the whole gamut of music-making from certainty to free improvisation. In the spirit of its creator, the cycle receives its Stuttgart premiere as a shared collaboration between school pupils, students, amateurs and professionals.