Music to take control of the air above Linz!
1 – 3 May 2009
An urban hike along the periphery of Linz
The three days from May 1st, which are devoted to marching bands, will reveal what a wealth of pomp and circumstance music has been written at different times and in different parts of the world for parades, processions and the like.
Some people will want to follow the PARADE on foot. Others will be surprised to meet it out in the open or at their windows. PARADE invites an audience of connoisseurs, the residents of Linz and visitors to the Capital of Culture, to a whole new experience listening to music in the public spaces of the city and promises intense sensuous pleasures. PARADE is excellent music played on the move and will help people get to know weird and wonderful sounds that will rejuvenate even the most jaded musical palates. The horns and percussion instruments of the Tonga will mingle with brass music from Zanzibar and Iran, with walking alphorns from Switzerland and moving balaphones from West Africa, duxianquins from China and tromps from our own remote Alpine regions or the master drums from the foothills of the Himalayas. By watching all this happen and listening to the result, Europe’s Capital of Culture will be receiving a message from the world.
1st May 2009
2:30 p.m. from Lunaplatz through SolarCity in Pichling
5 p.m. final concert at the HMH assembly hall, Im Süpark in Linz
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Idea / Concept: Keith Goddard, Peter Kuthan
In cooperation with HMH Kunstereignisse