Wood&Brass

Press Conference
Friday, 29 May 2009

A journey across time traces the development of wind music in Upper Austria and offers live tableaux illustrating its history.

What date should we assign to the beginnings of wind music? HOLZ&BLECH will be attempting to answer this question. With the bugles of the Romans wind music got off to an early start in our region, and Linz Castle, which was presumably the first venue for brass music around here, will be used again for that purpose. The Pfarrplatz will be an ideal setting for medieval wind music and Ursulinenhof will provide a congenial ambience for baroque music. Schloss Ebelsberg will provide a link to the French Revolution, whose far-reaching consequences also touched music. And the Industrial Revolution brought both freedom of movement and a boost in artistic freedom, as will be demonstrated in an OBB workshop. HOLZ&BLECH finally touches down in voestalpine, where we catch up with the present in a sea of metallic background noises.

For additional information about this project:

http://www.linz09.at/en/projekt-2106351/holzblech.html

Tel +43 / (0)732 / 2009-37
Fax +43 / (0)732 / 2009-43
pia.leydolt@linz09.at