Da Capo

The event opens a lecture series on the topic of "Music and the Brain" with internationally outstanding scientists who have made an outstanding contribution to researching the wonders of musical life in the brain. In this popular-scientific and entertaining format, they will talk about their research results and answer content-related questions, – in addition, the research personalities themselves will be introduced and made humanly approachable: What interests brought them to music, what brought them to brain research, what are their passions, what impulses feed their curiosity, how do they themselves experience music?

Idea and concept Prof. Dr. Marc Bangert

As Guest: Univ. Prof. Dr. Eckart Altenmüller, Hannover

Lecture: "Musizieren als Neuroplastizitätsmotor: Wie Musik unser Fühlen und Denken ändert!"
"Making Music as a Neuroplasticity Engine: How Music Changes the Way We Feel and Think!"

Musical contributions

Leoš Janáček (1854-1928): Violinsonata (1914)
1. Con moto
2. Ballada
Adrian Kratzert violin
Matteo Gobbini piano

Wolfgang Rihm (*1952): Ophelia Sings (2012)
3. They bore him bare-faced on the bier
Michelle Sitko soprano
Hyejin Kim piano

Steve Reich (*1936): Vermont Counterpoint for flute and ten virtual flutes (1982)
Patrisia Gruber flute
Realisation SAM · Computerstudio, Ricardo Rodrigues Erl, Mathis Menrath (Institut for Music Informatics and Musicology)

Hanns Eisler (1898 – 1962): Zeitungsausschnitte (Newspaper clippings) op. 11
3. Heiratsannonce (Liebeslied eines Kleinbürgermädchens) ― Marriage Announcement (love song of a petty bourgeois girl)
4. Kriegslied eines Kindes ― War song of a child
6. Heiratsannonce (Liebeslied eines Grundbesitzers) ― Marriage Announcement (love song of a landowner)
7. Aus einer Romanbeilage (Der Feldprediger) ― From a novel supplement (The Field Preacher)
Michelle Sitko soprano
Julika Hing soprano
Khayala Alizada piano
Hyejin Kim piano