From 22nd October to 9th November 2009 the 13th Week of Yiddish Music und Theatre takes place in Dresden. It focuses on two areas: with concerts, exhibitions and many lectures, talks, guided tours and movies, Jewish life in East Germany and the changes due to the political turmoils of 1989/90 will be reflected. Take the opportunity to experience two weeks full of Yiddish music, literature and Yiddish theater in Dresden.
(K. Michael)
From 2nd October to 1st November 2009 the 12th Middle-German Heinrich-Schütz-Days will offer you twenty events. Under the motto “Heinrich Schütz and Silesia” the famous German composer of the Early Baroque will be remembered in Weißefels, Bad Köstritz and Dresden.
Concerts and lectures take up a journey, which lead Schütz in 1621 together with prince elector Johann Georg I. to Breslau (Wroclaw). Detailed informations can be found on www.schuetztage.de
(K. Michael)
The focus of the festival, which takes place from 1st to 17th October 2009, is the connection of contemporary music with different kinds of art: dance, performance, installation, new media, video art, film, theater, music theater. The progam ranges from pathbreaking compositions of New Music to the latest experiments of electronic music, sound-collages and sound-environments.
Also the peripheries of avant-garde rock music, productions of independent labels and experimental jazz are part of the program. These exciting, inspiring, enjoyable evenings at the Tonlagen-Festival in Hellerau, in the Volkswagen Transparent Manufacture, the Church of the Three Kings and the Academy of Music certainly offer something for you as well.
(K. Michael)
The Saxon National Orchestra (Sächsische Staatskapelle) belongs to one of the most rich in tradition and oldest ensembles of the world. And with 461 years it is not a bit quite. On the contrary, the General Music Director Fabio Luisi and the musicians of the Sächsische Staatskapelle invite you to an enthralling and top-class casted concert season 2009/2010.
Forthwith you can obtain the new program at every known ticket office in Dresden or you can see it online at www.staatskapelle-dresden.de.
(Katharina Michael)
Until the 7th June the historic Dresden Music Festival takes place. Various outstanding artists and ensembles from across the world have been invited and focus on the »New World« as well as on the rich musical history of Dresden. Don’t miss one of the Festival`s fixtures – the Dresden singt & musiziert (Dresden Sings & Makes Music), which attracts hundreds of singers and thousands of listeners to the Brühl Terrace every year.
(Katharina Michael)
For the upcoming weekend Dresden will again be the capital of Dixieland! Already for the 39.th time this Jazz festival will reach its peak on Saturday and Sunday. On Saturday from 10.30 a.m. to 8.00 p.m. the “Dresden-Jazzmile” will offer on various stages between Wiener Platz/ St.-Petersburger-Str. and Old Market Square Bands with the particular “Happy-Music-Sound” to everybody. On Sunday an Open-Air-Concert will take place at the Great Garden`s Open-Air-Theatre: From 10.00 a.m. various bands will be performing. In the afternoon from 3.30 p.m. the Dixieland-Parade will start at Tatzberg and will be touring along the river Elbe all the way through the historic Center of Dresden. A particularly exiting highlight of this popular music festival!
(Astrid Brühl)
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