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A Programming Highlight of Yiddish Summer Weimar 2017: Caravan Orchestra – A Transnational Journey of Musical and Cultural Discovery
When musicians from different cultures come together, they release a creative potential that opens up new horizons and inspires artistic innovation alike. In this project, the participants work together on a concert program, which reflects their diverse musical roots – and at the same time gives them the opportunity to engage intensively with their own identities and how these influence the way in which they see both their culture and music.
Participants: 30 musicians from the Arab-Jewish Orchestra and Yiddish Summer Weimar 2017
Project Content: The music of the Middle East and Europe has many shared elements and connected roots that are often overlooked. The Caravan Orchestra brings together Jewish and Arab musicians from Israel with their European colleagues from Germany in order to make these connections visible once again. In addition to playing music together and developing a concert program, grappling with one’s own cultural identity is another important part of the program. Cultural difference thus becomes a source of creative potential rather than bringing about conflict and division.
Project Working Methods: The project starts with the German participants visiting Haifa,Israel, where they begin with the musical work. The visit gives the young musicians numerous opportunities to incorporate their own ideas and musical languages into the program. A joint trip to Thüringia, Germany, follows as well as a concert performance as part of Yiddish Summer Weimar.
Project Goals: In addition to the development of a full-length concert program and several performances, the project aims to enable the participants to create new frames of reference for their identities via cultural exchange, allowing them to move beyond such boundaries as nationality and religion to develop new self-conceptions of their music which transcend any such categories.
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Participants: 30 musicians from the Arab-Jewish Orchestra and Yiddish Summer Weimar 2017
Project Content: The music of the Middle East and Europe has many shared elements and connected roots that are often overlooked. The Caravan Orchestra brings together Jewish and Arab musicians from Israel with their European colleagues from Germany in order to make these connections visible once again. In addition to playing music together and developing a concert program, grappling with one’s own cultural identity is another important part of the program. Cultural difference thus becomes a source of creative potential rather than bringing about conflict and division.
Project Working Methods: The project starts with the German participants visiting Haifa,Israel, where they begin with the musical work. The visit gives the young musicians numerous opportunities to incorporate their own ideas and musical languages into the program. A joint trip to Thüringia, Germany, follows as well as a concert performance as part of Yiddish Summer Weimar.
Project Goals: In addition to the development of a full-length concert program and several performances, the project aims to enable the participants to create new frames of reference for their identities via cultural exchange, allowing them to move beyond such boundaries as nationality and religion to develop new self-conceptions of their music which transcend any such categories.
othermusic.eu
yiddishsummer.eu
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