Farewell concert for Martin Weller, the longtime director of the Braunschweig State Orchestra, who is retiring.
Works by Johann Sebastian Bach, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Gustav Mahler, Arnold Schönberg and George Antheil, among others, are performed under the title »Fragments«.
The program, which focuses on Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's "Haffner Symphony", is entitled "Fragments" and offers a collage-style retrospective of the work of the program designer and music mediator, who, with his main themes and multi-year program cycles, inspired the Braunschweiger concerts in a special way. Under headings such as “Music and Space”, “Music and Garbage”, “Music and Machine”, “Music and Bauhaus”, “The Last Glory of the Symphony” and “Opera in Concert”, connections and discussions with non-musical content emerged , which, on the one hand, should serve to make musical structures and content easier to understand and, on the other hand, should indicate the location of so-called classical music in the social space and social context.