Bach und Beethoven für alle (Artikel aus der NZZ) Bach and Beethoven for all
Swiss venues for classical music professionalize their offer of mediation and want more boy lured into the halls
Many vendors employ classical concerts recently specialized staff that cares only about the transfer. This should be obtained primarily young audience.
Beat Grossrieder
Als erstes klassisches Ensemble der Schweiz richtete das Musikkollegium Winterthur im Herbst vor zwei Jahren eine spezialisierte Vollzeitstelle einzig für die Musikvermittlung ein - und startete sogleich mit einem Paukenschlag. Marco Müller, damals Jugendbeauftragter des Musikkollegiums und heute Geschäftsleiter der Camerata Zürich, stellte mit dem Komponisten Andreas Nick und dem Theater Winterthur das Mammutprojekt «Fealan - Winterthur schreibt eine Oper» auf die Beine. Nicht weniger als 800 Schülerinnen und Schüler von 7 bis 17 Jahren waren in den Entstehungsprozess involviert. Begleitet durch Fachpersonen, die in die Schulhäuser gingen, erfanden die Kinder a story, they put to dramatic structure, and composed the music, created costumes and set design, studied everything and brought the work performed in May 2009. Similar to the project "Rhythm is it" the conductor Simon Rattle, the Berlin Philharmonic did with spectacular youth work, was also created on the Winterthur children's opera, a documentary, was the great attention. Initiator Müller: "Projects of this kind are also a reaction to shrinking public figures and the fact that art music is barely taught within the family."
now Houses have another performance of classical music specialist exchanges set up. Although most of these institutions to offer mediation services for some time as introductions or class events, but they were far more special offers, which were dependent on the initiative of a conductor or a PR employee. Now we find, it shows instead a survey of the NZZ, the professionalisation: So the Lucerne Symphony Orchestra in spring 2008, has set up an appropriate body to 60 percent, the Bern Symphony Orchestra followed in August 2009 with a 50-percent-body, has the Zurich Opera House since early September, a young officer full time. With the Tonhalle Orchestra Zürich wird die Vermittlung durch eine Person betreut, die auch andere Aufgaben erfüllt; zurzeit prüft das Orchester, die Vermittlung auszubauen. Noch keine Stelle hat das Sinfonieorchester Basel, wo man mit Konzertvermittlern zusammenspannt.
Die Jugend begeistern
Laut Marco Müller geht es bei der Vermittlung nicht nur darum, Kindern und Jugendlichen etwas zu bieten, vielmehr könnten auch die Veranstalter and benefit the musicians of the opening of their profession: "As creative artists we have a task for society - we may not be the musical education of the population does not matter." For a long time had the classical music is sealed and maintained the image of the elite. A look abroad, however, show that an orchestra could inspire a wide audience, if he succeeds, emerging to ease fears. Here you are located in Switzerland only at the beginning, says Müller: "In the U.S., for example, employ large orchestra of up to ten people who care only about the transfer." It will not go about offering as many mega-events; important, children should also be reach from families or young people with immigrant backgrounds. To do this requires new forms of distribution. Mueller criticized: "The classical concert followed for over a hundred years the same rituals - and now you will be amazed that interest people less and less for it."
miller successor at the music college of Winterthur, Matthijs Bunschoten, adds even a political note into the game. In many European countries you have long recognized the importance of the cultural advancement of the youth - in Switzerland, where parliament is currently on a New Culture Promotion Act discussed, this insight is still largely lacking. "In Holland, for example, requires the state subsidy in its contracts a term communication. . In Switzerland, but the youth is still on a voluntary basis "in the case of the music college Winterthur was an intensive search for private sponsors: The first two years funded the Drosos Foundation, for the following two years was the CS Foundation can be obtained. Also in Lucerne Symphony, the music education program "Horizons" has recently been funded entirely privately, as the person responsible Diana Lehnert says. The other operators, such as the Opera House and the Tonhalle Orchestra Zurich or Berne Symphony Orchestra, have in the budget the necessary Item shoveled.
are completely isolated, the new music educators are not. In many cantons, such as the Aargau, Bern, Zurich or train, there are official bodies which act for many years as a hinge between cultural providers and schools (see box). These bodies are located in urban or cantonal education departments, there was a "close cooperation", says Roger Laemmli, Youth Officer at the Zurich Opera House. His first task Lämmli sees it, to coordinate existing services more sustainable: "For example, I support teachers in preparation of an opera visit with their classes. Conversely, it is also possible that the classes bring singers and musicians to get into the school building "Some of these offers are by the state cultural exchanges organized and financed. Come as every year thousands of students into contact with classical music. The canton of Bern has about himself with the project "Tönstör" the ambitious goal that every child in the entire canton experience at least once in his school days an interactive access to the avant-garde classical music, such as Sonja Koller says the dispute with the Bern Symphony Orchestra, the mediation . This agent and musicians bring the appropriate level in the demanding art schools Borne by the public sector. Another example of successful promotion of music, the orchestra gave recently when it performed in a live production of the Swiss television, the opera "La Bohème" in the Bernese Gäbelbach district.
mix of party and concert
Even if students and young people the main clientele of the music educators representing: Next target audience waiting for the adults. The Tonhalle Orchestra Zurich, for instance, already conducted in 1928 and offers first youth concerts for over 60 years, introductions to new works, has seven years before the series started, "TonhalleLATE" which combines a classical concert with a party. Future would be primarily "the 40 - to 50-year-olds take more targeted," says the project manager Mara Corleoni. "We want to expand music education for adults, there are unfortunately many still fear a certain threshold before a concert hall."
musically How is Switzerland?
Statistical focus on the active use of music
A study by the Federal Office shows statistics: Two third of the Swiss go to concerts, one in five plays an instrument. The biggest barriers to entry for the musical culture of placing education and income dar.
go. · «2008 besuchten zwei Drittel der Bevölkerung in der Schweiz Konzerte aller Musikrichtungen», heisst es in der Studie «Kulturverhalten in der Schweiz», die das Bundesamt für Statistik (BfS) und das Bundesamt für Kultur (BAK) im Sommer 2009 präsentierten. Was so aussieht, als wären die Schweizer ein Volk von Musikfans, wird bereits im folgenden Nebensatz relativiert: 90 Prozent der Konzertgänger pflegen ihr Hobby «ein- bis sechsmal pro Jahr», rund 60 Prozent hegen nur den Wunsch, öfter an Konzerte zu gehen.
Ähnlich diffus präsentiert sich das Picture when making music, as the follow-up study "music" of the BfS shows - the first national survey, which deepens with the musicality of the Swiss population is concerned. Results: Although 20 percent of the population play an instrument, ie one in five residents, but this value is relative, as well indicate 50 percent of the population to have visited in their lives for at least one year of music lessons. Such studies would thus have a little lasting effect: "Over half of the previously trained individuals use their instrument not" conclude the authors of the study. Why this is so, should be explored in 2010 with an impact analysis.
Der Blick in die Kulturseele
Wie musikalisch also sind Herr und Frau Schweizer wirklich? Auf Anfrage rechnet Olivier Moeschler von der Sektion Politik, Kultur und Medien beim BfS vor, dass es in der Schweiz rund 1,2 Millionen Einwohner gibt, die mehr oder weniger regelmässig ein Instrument zur Hand nehmen. «Das ist eine stolze Zahl», meint Moeschler. Die Frage, ob sie singen würden, bejahten 16 Prozent, so dass mit knapp einer weiteren Million Personen zu rechnen ist, die sich gesanglich betätigen. These values \u200b\u200bare comparable to European studies, Moeschler said, referring to the Euro barometer "European Cultural Values" of 2007 that dominate depending on the state and social class 5 to 22 percent of the population of an instrument.
is in these countries and in Switzerland, access to active musical culture depends mainly on two factors: education and income. "People with higher education compared to music more often than those with more than secondary education as well as those with more than a hundred thousand francs, with annual income of those with fifty thousand francs or less, "concludes the BfS study.
A question of educational attainment
Every fourth with Uni degree and one in four plays with high-income instruments - at the secondary school leavers, it is not one in ten, on low-wage benefits received about one in seven. "It is important that students be made aware at the beginning of compulsory education for cultural activities," this is the conclusion of the BfS study. Werner Joos from the Swiss Music Teacher Association (SMPV) goes a step further. While he is the musical level of the population is in all areas very well. According to a study of the European Music School Union 12 percent of the Swiss attended until the age of 25 years a music school, which will in Europe, only surpassed by Sweden and Liechtenstein. In fact, the association schools music Switzerland (VMS) is currently 380 music schools teaching almost 270 000 students. Nevertheless, Joos defects is convinced that the socially disadvantaged and the adults. "All the statistics show that high-income strata are more musicalized. This would mean that cantons pay for a higher share of the costs and in addition it adult training subsidize, so the music instruction does not remain an elite affair "
action at another level sees Niklaus Rüegg, spokesman for the Music School Association VMS." The first priority for a better musical composition of the Swiss . and Swiss has to study music in school, "where many lay in disarray, Rüegg Regrets: The department would be informed seriously enough, it will be in teacher training marginalized or relegated to the elective. The consequences, according to Rüegg: "Unfortunately, many people are musical illiterates, although over the years in music were taught. "Here the initiative was to" youth and music, the end of 2008 with 154 000 signatures was tabled to give countermeasures.
New initiatives
popularization of musical culture
go. · Cantonal and municipal bodies have long been active in cultural education. In Zurich, the cantonal office as there are "school & culture" as well as the urban counterpart, Office of School Culture in Bern, the Department of Culture and Sciences in Aargau replace culture in school. A pioneering role, the Canton train, where since 1985, the office is animation school music that has organized to date over 400 concerts per 100 000 children. The body, headed by Armon Caviezel, President of the Association of Swiss school music (VSSM), takes the moment to tackle a major project: 560 school children rehearsing a Christmas concert and sing songs from around the world in six languages - and heart.
Dem Trend zur Musikvermittlung folgen auch Hochschulen. Seit 2008 bietet etwa die Hochschule der Künste Bern die Master «Vermittlung in Kunst und Design / Art Education» sowie «Music Pedagogy» an. Die Ausbildungen befähigen, an Sekundarschulen, Gymnasien oder Musikschulen zu unterrichten oder in kulturellen Institutionen tätig zu sein. Seit 2009 gibt es an der Zürcher Hochschule der Künste das Angebot «MAS in Musikvermittlung und Konzertpädagogik». Die Studierenden lernen etwa, wie man Kinderkonzerte und Musiktheater konzipiert.
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