Hildegard von Bingen
to Clara Schumann
Sounds of Sustainability
What is the change in you, in me, in all of us? Shifting between social responsibility and individual hope, Stegreif Orchestra presents the symphony of change, as the conclusion of the #bechange series. It focuses on the interplay between music and sustainability and develops a musical invitation to contribute towards the change that is necessary for addressing the big challenges of our time.
Bild: Navina Neuschl
In the symphony of change, Stegreif asks itself what this change sounds like. The orchestra spans the musical arc of four female composers and periods of an underappreciated musical history: from Hildegard von Bingen (1098-1179), Wilhelmine von Bayreuth (1709-1785), Emilie Mayer (1812-1883) to Clara Schumann (1819-1896). Stegreif gives these voices a new resonance by recomposing selected works of these historical female composers by five young female members of the orchestra. Between Bingen's ordo virtutum, Bayreuth's opera Argenore, Schumann's Klavierromanze and Mayer's 7th symphony, emerges a performance that creates a new common thread in music history and, with it, breaks through the genre boundaries between jazz, classical, contemporary and improvised music.