Summer of culture

A charity piano concert on 28 June started off the Summer of Culture at the Goetheanum as it reopened for the public.

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"We are very happy that one can hear music again in a concert, played on acoustic instruments!” says Stefan Hasler, referring to the «whole range of sound» one was able to hear again.

“Under the heading Five pianists and two grand pianos we have reopened the Main Auditorium again after the imposed closure,” continues the head of the Section for the Performing Arts, who is also a pianist. On 28 June, Hasler himself, Johannes Greiner, Hartwig Joerges, Olaf Marggraf and Hristo Kazakov played on two grand pianos, one of them having recently been completely refurbished, presenting a “rich sound and a rarely heard repertoire” with works by Francis Poulenc, Gustav Holst, Dmitri Shostakovich, Ludwig van Beethoven, Alexander Skriabin, Hans-Georg Burghardt, Josef Matthias Hauer, Sergei Rachmaninoff und Witold Lutosławski.

The new production of Goethe's ‹Faust 1 & 2› in nine hours will premiere on 10 to 12 July. Andrea Pfaehler is the director and Eduardo Torres is responsible for the eurythmy. The premiere will be followed by two more Faust weekends in July and one performance-only event in October. The Arlesheim youth theatre ‹Junge Bühne›, also under the direction of Andrea Pfaehler, will present guest performances at the Goetheanum between 28 August to 6 September, showing a programme based on Thornton Wilder's The Skin of Our Teeth.

Until 5 July Ortwin Pennemann is exhibiting 28 pictures at the Goetheanum on the theme of ‹The New Seed of the Earth›; from 4 July to 30 August various artists will show Corona-related works under the title ‹Into the Unknown›.

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