NEWSLETTER 10/19

With today's opening of the winter semester, we are presenting a new offering and cordially invite you to browse through our Mediathek, which has just gone live.
The audiovisual documentation platform shows a considerable cross-section of our artistic and scientific activities and is constantly being expanded. Over the past few months, the webcast team employed specifically for this purpose has been sifting through, editing and archiving existing material. At the same time, the production of new recordings has begun. Whether concert, theater, opera, lecture series, panel discussions, portraits or master classes. Many of our events are now also available online.

The project pursues a dual objective:
Interested parties can obtain in-depth information at any time or immerse themselves in the worlds of the HfMT from the comfort of their own home. Students can use the recordings to reflect on and improve their own performance or use the recordings for applications.

Live streaming on social networks and various filter functions are planned for the near future to keep the rapidly growing media library user-friendly.

Watch the movie and have fun browsing!

Cellist Seo Young Lee considers the opportunity to go even deeper musically during her postgraduate studies, to focus entirely on her artistic development and the development of her own sound ideal, to be a great stroke of luck: "I have become much more mature and self-confident. Above all, thinking intensively about music in both an artistic and philosophical sense has helped me a lot."
Born in Korea, she is currently completing her concert exam with Prof. Sebastian Klinger and will give her final concert with the Hamburg Symphony Orchestra on October 17.
With the cello concerto by Mieczysław Weinberg, Seo has chosen a little-known work. She appreciates the powerful and multifaceted language of the music by Shostakovich's companion and friend: "On the one hand, you can directly sense the gloom of the composer's dramatic biography, who had to suffer through National Socialism and Stalinism. On the other hand, he was able to free himself from this and developed a fascinating variety of forms of expression, especially in his later (golden) phase after his own imprisonment in the Soviet Union. The search for freedom and brightness is audible. Folkloristic elements are incorporated, interspersed with complicated rhythms. The music is at times explosive, then introverted again, the dynamic and musical contrasts are enormous." For Seo, Weinberg is an unjustly forgotten composer who has been rediscovered in recent years and is now being played more often again, especially on his 100th birthday.

Every year in October, our third-year directing students take to the stage of the St. Pauli Theater to present their work.
Dor Aloni is one of them, and in "Hitler baby one more time" he plays a fast-paced and poppy game with his own past. The alienation of the underlying material deliberately blurs the boundaries between reality and fiction. As the sole performer, supported by videos, projections, music and sound effects, he leads a discourse on identities and memory culture, the evil in each of us and the possibilities of liberation and self-empowerment.
The provocative title reveals several approaches at this point: firstly, there is a projection of Hitler as a baby. It implies the initial innocence of every human being, who at the same time always carries the potential for evil. The reference to a Britney Spears song in it heralds the pop structure of the piece, and ultimately the phrase "one more time" raises the question of the need to revisit it. "Do we have to rework it again and again?" And "Can it actually happen again?"
In all of this, Dor Aloni finds his humorous approach legitimate and helpful. Not that he wants to soften the drama of the material in the slightest. "But it can help to overcome the victim role, and it is a stylistic device to lighten up the role shifts."

This and four other works will be shown by the Kiezstürmer on October 26 and 27 at the St. Pauli Theater

Glenn Großmann is studying double bass in the Master's program with Prof. Michael Rieber and will be playing in the major symphony concerts of the university orchestra on October 19 and 20 in the Miralles Hall.

He recommends the Welcome Music Session on October 10 at the Zinnschmelze:

I've been studying double bass at the HfMT for five years, and after my time at the academy in the NDR Elbphilharmonieorchester, I'm now starting my master's degree. I also compose and play electric bass, trombone and other instruments.
If you don't speak a common language, you intuitively choose a simpler, more universal language such as facial expressions, gestures or music and dance. You can feel what makes us all human and what moves us at our core. This experience is not new, but it still deserves a certain amount of care today. This is not the only reason why I would like to recommend the Welcome Music Session in the Zinnschmelze to all readers, but also simply because here you can experience the pure joy of music in a way that rarely happens. People from all over the world bring their music and instruments to tell stories and reinvent them in dialog with each other. And suddenly you are on a journey together that perhaps feels like home. Definitely worth a visit!