the season opened. At the opening concert "Three after Three", which began at exactly 15.03 PM, played works by Claude Debussy, Elliott Carter, Nadia Boulanger, Anton Webern and Arnold Schoenberg. To was a concert on Saturday evening, the lower Saxony Prime Minister Stephan Weil (SPD) is expected. The Summer music days take up to 9. August. The Festival in the city on the Elbe river was founded in 1946. But according to organizer information, which is Germany's oldest chamber music festival can take place, it had to be completely rescheduled. "Culture has been flipped - for the first time in history!", Director Oliver Wille said before the Festival. "The way back is difficult, too different, yet so incredibly important."

Since 22. June are allowed in lower Saxony concerts in enclosed spaces for up to 250 people. The main concert hall of the music days is now 150 listeners positioned around the musicians. "Close to distance" calls will to the concept. The concerts are shorter and have no break, they played almost all of them twice. The musicians play in smaller ensembles.

When you Relocate the program, said, according to Willes details of many Stars in the short term, the soprano Sarah Maria Sun and the violinist Patricia Kopatchinskaja.

dpa Updated Date: 01 August 2020, 16:26