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9th Symphony concert: Schumann’s Second
Mon 12 May 2025
8 pm
Großer Saal
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9th Symphony concert: Schumann’s SecondMon 12. May 2025 / 8 pm / Großer Saal
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9th Symphony concert: Schumann’s SecondMon 12. May 2025 / 8 pm / Großer Saal
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Igor Stravinsky composed his “Symphony in Three Movements” a good three decades earlier. Written in 1945, it is a harrowing sound document of the dreadful war years – featuring the brisk rhythm of marches and phantasmal images of goose-stepping soldiers in the final movement. “The finale,” Stravinsky said, “even contains the development of a war theme, although I only realised that after finishing the composition.”
Robert Schumann, on the other hand, composed his Symphony No. 2 in reaction to a personal crisis. However, the self-elected Rhineland resident managed to recover, experimented with the symphonic genre and created a tonal language that reveals rather more light than shadow.
Programme
Arvo Pärt
Fratres
Igor Strawinsky
Symphony in Three Movements
Robert Schumann
Symphony No. 2 in C major, op. 61
Performers
- Wuppertal Symphony Orchestra
- Perry So
- conductor
Introduction to the concert
Professor Lutz-Werner Hesse provides an insight into the compositions and the creative work of the composer, as well as an overview of the historical context and background in a half-hourly concert introduction on the Mondays of symphony concerts performed by the Wuppertal Symphony Orchestra. Soloists or the conductor share interesting facts about the concert programme in dialogue with the audience.
Professor Lutz-Werner Hesse is a composer and the managing director of the Wuppertal department of the Hochschule für Musik und Tanz Köln.
Tickets for symphony concerts on Monday evenings include entrance to these concert introductions at 7.00 pm free of charge. (Please note, spaces are limited.)
The venue for the talk is signposted in the foyer.
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Organiser
Kurt-Drees-Str. 4
42283 Wuppertal
Tel. +49 (0) 202 563 7600
info@wuppertaler-buehnen.de
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Accessibility
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Wheelchair ramps and lifts (with announcement) will provide you with easy access to all rooms.
Parking spaces for disabled people are available both in the multi-storey car park and in the Südstrasse car park.
Toilets for disabled people can be found on the ground floor (to the right of the main entrance) at the eastern end of the foyer. They are clearly signposted.
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