Goetheanum Eurythmy Ensemble on tour

Early in 2021, the Goetheanum Eurythmy Ensemble will go on tour, presenting four different programmes, including its newest: Klangzeiten (times of sound).

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The Goetheanum Eurythmy Ensemble aims to make eurythmy a public experience. It does this with its performances at the Goetheanum, which are often related to particular events, but also with independent programmes. In 2021, the Ensemble will go on tour.

“Because of Coronavirus it has been difficult to get bookings,” says Felix Schmidt, who organizes the tour for the Goetheanum Stage. Some inquiries have not been confirmed yet, but there will definitely be performances in anthroposophical organizations and schools in Germany, France, Austria and Switzerland.

The tour will include four programmes: Threads of Light, The Bremen Town Musicians and Schumann Morgenstern will be resumed, with a new addition that lends the whole tour its name: Klangzeiten.

Because of the originally scheduled venues the tour will focus on tone eurythmy, but there will also be short texts as transitions between the music pieces.

The music for Threads of Light, by Ludwig van Beethoven (String Quartet Opus 132) and Kaija Saariaho (from Je sens un deuxième cœur) will be taken up again for the new programme Klangzeiten and complemented by works composed by Arthur Honegger and Anton von Webern. The central movement of Beethoven’s String Quartet Opus 132, one of the slowest classical pieces, will thus meet one of the shortest modern pieces, by von Webern.

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