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A musical journey through time—from the Roman Empire to Steel City.

When did the local tradition of woodwind & brass music begin? WOOD&BRASS followed traces all the way back to the roots. The Roman Empire’s signal horns were the first such instruments in these parts; for the Capital of Culture, they resounded from Linz Castle. The Middle Ages were represented by Pfarrplatz Square, and the Baroque Age by the courtyard of the Landhaus. Schloss Ebelsberg took audiences back to the time of the French Revolution and its wide-ranging consequences that included an impact on music. The Industrial Revolution brought greater freedom to travel as well as artistic freedom, which audiences experienced in a workshop of the Austrian Federal Railway. WOOD&BRASS’s finale was set in a modern voestalpine steel mill and thus amidst a soundscape of metallic background noise.
Audiences could follow this journey through time on foot or by bus. Installations along the way elaborated on the various epochs. Visual treats were paired with musical works written especially for the occasion, whereby the composers were explicitly commissioned to explore and transcend the boundaries of the respective periods and genres.


WHAT // Woodwind & brass music
WHEN // On 4 weekends from June to September 2009
WHERE // Linzer Schloss, Pfarrplatz, Landhaus, Schloss Ebelsberg, ÖBB Linz, voestalpine
www.holzundblech.at

IDEA / CONCEPT // Hermann Miesbauer
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