Friday 21 of
November 2008
Artists who can be described as “new”
-those who change something- are no strangers to the attacks that their
enemies have always launched and continue to launch against the new
trends and views that they cannot understand. As in Art, so in Politics.
There are always those who fight progress in all its forms and manifestations:
they are the upholders of the “status quo”. (E. Satie,
‘Notas sobre la música moderna’, L’Humanité,
1919).
At Musikeon, music is culture. We believe in music - all music - and in its ability to express the concerns of the society in which it exists.
Classical music, that is classical music within the European tradition, has for centuries been part of the soundtrack of Western civilisation, and it continues to be one of our greatest treasures. But it currently finds itself at a very difficult juncture in its history: Symbolic of a whole way of thinking, that way of thinking has for some time been in a state of crisis.
Could this be the beginning of the end? We are convinced that it is not. But traditions can only survive if they keep moving, and Western classical music faces an enormous challenge if it is to keep its finger on the pulse of 21st century society.
“New approaches” is a laboratory for new avenues in interpretation - a laboratory that is teeming with projects, ideas and proposals for the future. Because the problem does not lie with Beethoven or Mahler, but how we approach them now and in the future.
The first step in its work was the cycle organized in Valencia in June, 2007. The second has involved creating a new look for the inauguration of our courses in 2007-2008: a collective performance of Erik Satie’s Vexations. But that is not all. “New Approaches” is a global project, one that has a beginning, but no end. Each new stage in the project will be reported on this page...
At Musikeon, music is culture. We believe in music - all music - and in its ability to express the concerns of the society in which it exists.
Classical music, that is classical music within the European tradition, has for centuries been part of the soundtrack of Western civilisation, and it continues to be one of our greatest treasures. But it currently finds itself at a very difficult juncture in its history: Symbolic of a whole way of thinking, that way of thinking has for some time been in a state of crisis.
Could this be the beginning of the end? We are convinced that it is not. But traditions can only survive if they keep moving, and Western classical music faces an enormous challenge if it is to keep its finger on the pulse of 21st century society.
“New approaches” is a laboratory for new avenues in interpretation - a laboratory that is teeming with projects, ideas and proposals for the future. Because the problem does not lie with Beethoven or Mahler, but how we approach them now and in the future.
The first step in its work was the cycle organized in Valencia in June, 2007. The second has involved creating a new look for the inauguration of our courses in 2007-2008: a collective performance of Erik Satie’s Vexations. But that is not all. “New Approaches” is a global project, one that has a beginning, but no end. Each new stage in the project will be reported on this page...
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