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Wittener Tage für neue Kammermusik 2014 Programming new music: Tradition and the challenge of perspective

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 September 2014

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For this Norwegian music critic, visiting a German music festival always means excitement and great expectations for, given its long traditions and proud institutions, German musical life has a special attraction. However, the reality may sometimes be quite astonishing. So it was that after about an hour on the train from Düsseldorf Airport, climbing down the steps at Witten Hauptbahnhof, I couldn't help asking myself, ‘How can it be that this rather anonymous-looking little town will, for the coming couple of days, be the centre of the relatively narrow field of contemporary chamber music?’.

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References

1 Michael Rebhahn: ‘I Hereby Resign From New Music: On the Problem of an Involuntary Labelling Including a Taxonomy of the Species “Composer”’. Lecture given at the 46th International Summer Course for New Music Darmstadt, 20 July 2012. http://data.nuthing.eu/maestri/rebhahn_newmusic.pdf