| International Symposium on the importance and future of the organ |
| The Symposium’s goal is to give impulses on different levels and challenge academic institutions, churches, politics and the general public to take responsibility on preserving and promoting the cultural value of the organ.
Promoting and supporting upcoming talents and the passing on of this cultural value to children and adolescents will receive special attention.
Target audience are specialists from all over Europe active in the fields of organ building, organ playing, teaching (teachers and students), music management and people in managing positions in churches, politics and cultural institutions.
concerts, promenades, conférences | | Topics of the Symposium
Organ and society – organ in the ecclesiastical and secular context – up-and-coming organists – tendencies and progress in organ building – preservation and restoration of historical instruments – tonal and technical encounters with the organ – lectures – workshops – concerts – church services
In the forefront, national associations will be asked to evaluate the local ‘organ situation’ (concerning instrument inventory, young talents, importance of the organ in liturgical and concert context). Individual national reports will be communicated at the Symposium, and a leaflet with all those reports will be handed out.
The Symposium will try to enhance on promoting and supporting upcoming talents and the passing on of this cultural value to children and adolescents by the means of workshops and lectures, special children and youth programs all around Zurich (free lessons, organ presentations, an organ musical, organ classes etc.) In particular, all organ students at all Swiss German Music Academies will occupy themselves in 2011 with talent promotion by special study days (introduction to the subject, concepts of promotion). By the beginning of the Symposium, all organ students should have accomplished an organ presentation for children, adolescents or adults.
There will be encounters with local instruments with special attention paid to tonal and technical aspects. Addressees are specialists as well as the general public (concerts, organ night, ‘organ walks’, presentation of a ‘touch sensitive’ organ, etc.)
The reasons for the (non) inclusion of the organ in today’s concert life and in the media shall be reflected.
In discussions and lectures, the modified role of the organ in liturgical use (nowadays apparent in many places) will be debated, exchanging ideas with church officials, theologians, church musicians and organ builders.
The values, norms and paradigms of organ building and organ restoration from the conservational point of view as well as trends and developments in organ building are topics in lectures, podium discussions and organ presentations.
A “Zurich Resolution 2011” will call on politicians, church representatives, cultural officials and the broad public to take over responsibility for the preservation and the promotion of the cultural values of the organ.
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| | Lien : www.orgel2011.ch |
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