crescendo 2025: InnenSaiten [EN]
Innenansichten – on the cohesion of the arts in times of crisis, past and present – crescendo
A benefit concert against anti-Semitism and marginalisation
The final concert of crescendo2025 traces the history of the Faculty of Music and recognizes the responsibility that the UdK Berlin bears as an art academy in the current times.
Alarming, recent developments are not only expressed in the loss of social solidarity. In this progressive division of society, increasingly harsh positions are emerging. Here at the UdK Berlin, too. Grey areas diverge into black and white and the exploitation of language means that seemingly benign terms encode extreme views.
The musicians at this year's closing concert are confronting the current divisive opinions and strengthening the sense of community of the university members and the audience. The power of music, especially through its non-linguistic form, can have a unifying and strengthening effect. However, this power of the arts also brings with it a special responsibility that the next generation must be made aware of. Students must be made aware that subjugating their own artistic position to an ideological mandate opens the path from art to propaganda and that their own work gradually loses its artistic power. Art is always communication and opens up a space for reflection that must be preserved at all costs. We are committed to the preservation of democracy, the prevention of totalitarian acts on both a small and large scale and the promotion of the arts as a critical element of creative individuality.
In the course of the evening, music will be presented that is connected to our institutional history in various ways, and discussions will shed light on the multi-layered problems of the social developments outlined above. Teachers and students of the university will perform, and personalities from the worlds of art and culture will speak.
Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy: from: Sonata for piano and violoncello Nr. 2 D major op. 58, Piano trio D minor op. 49 | Arnold Schönberg: Six little pieces op. 19, Suite op. 25 | Brigitte Schiffer: string quartet | Ursula Mamlok: From My Garden and others
Kyungsik Shin, Gregor Sigl, Viola / Konstantin Heidrich, Violoncello / Markus Groh, Björn Lehmann, Seunghun Shin, Piano / Bernstein Trio:Roman Tulchynsky, Violin / Marei Schibilsky, Violoncello / Julia Stephan, Piano / Students and professors of UdK Berlin
Guests: Prof. Dr. Markus Hilgert, President of UdK Berlin, Prof. Dr. Norbert Palz, former President of UdK Berlin
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The Berlin Senate has imposed enormous savings targets on public universities. You know that: An excellent musical education consists not only of the many hours of solitary practising and lessons by professors, but also, to a large extent, of performing in front of an audience. This inherent part of the training is also the opportunity for you to attend almost always free concerts at a high level. We don't want to have to cut back on this. By attending our events, you can also show those responsible in politics that music and art are meaningful for every society. And if you can: support us with small or large donations. The donations are used for teaching, tuning, transport, advertising material, for our music festival crescendo - wherever no funds can be spent at the moment. This directly benefits our students and also you as the audience, as this is the only way we can maintain events of this calibre and variety.
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