ISCM World Music Days 2004
The ISCM World Music Days 2004 took place from November 3rd to 12th, 2004 under the motto "Trans it - to penetrate it, to go through it, to overcome it (trance-it: to dream it)" in Switzerland . This was the sixth time that the country hosted the ISCM World Music Days after 1926, 1929, 1957, 1970 and 1991 . The composer Mathias Steinauer was responsible for the artistic direction . He developed the innovative concept of a sound train.
Performers
The orchestra Musikkollegium Winterthur under Roland Kluttig , the Orchester de Chambre de Lausanne under Heinz Holliger , the Bern Symphony Orchestra under Peter Hirsch, the Zurich Tonhalle Orchestra under Pierre-André Valade, the Orchestra della Svizzera italiana under Olivier Cuendet, the Lucerne Symphony Orchestra under Mark Foster and the Ensemble Phorminx under Jürg Henneberger.
Venues
- Lucerne train station
- Information center of the Gotthard Base Tunnel
- Santa Maria degli Angioli church, Lugano
- Culture Casino Bern
- Lucerne Theater
- Winterthur town house
- Theater Basel
- Tonhalle Zurich
World premieres
- Took-Hee Chung: Syncrisis
- Gwyn Pritchard : The fruit of chance and necessity
- Bart Vanhecke: Des cercles sur les eaux
- René Wohlhauser : Gantenbein
- Nadir Vassena : body, guard
- Johannes Schöllhorn : Red ash
literature
- Fritz Muggler: TRANS_IT. IGNM World Music Days 2004 in Switzerland . In: MusikTexte 104 (2005), pp. 85–86.
- Peter Hagmann: "Harmlessness, Masterworks - The 2004 World Music Days kicked off in Switzerland" . In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung , November 8, 2004