Stubete by the lake

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The Stubete am See is a festival for new Swiss folk music . It has taken place every two years in the Tonhalle and on the Bauschänzli in Zurich since 2008 and lasts for a weekend. The festival was initiated by Florian Walser and Johannes Schmid-Kunz and is still organized today as a two-man operation.

prehistory

Swiss folk music has had to struggle with prejudices , especially in urban areas, since the consequences of the spiritual national defense . Before the Second World War, Zurich was considered a country stronghold and in 1939 even the federal costume festival took place in the Tonhalle. But soon after the war, Swiss folk music was largely deleted from both the concert hall and the calendar of events in the city of Zurich. It was dismissed as something out of date and reactionary that did not fit into the modern environment of the city of Zurich. With new influences from other musical genres or foreign folk music, but also through a professional, reflective approach to its own cultural assets, Swiss folk music has been able to shed its dusty image a little since the 1990s and present itself in certain circles as very innovative and versatile. As part of this development, the Stubete am See was recognized as a groundbreaking project in the 2007 Pro Helvetia Foundation's “echos - Folk Culture for Tomorrow” competition.

program

The Stubete am See presents a comprehensive picture of the new Swiss folk music from all linguistic regions of Switzerland. Experimental and innovative concerts take place on the two Tonhalle stages, while traditional dance music is played in the Tonhalle vestibule and on the Bauschänzli. It will also Stubete place that give the musicians the opportunity for musical exchange and involve the audience itself.

Folk dance crash courses have been offered since 2012 to fill the dance floors in the vestibule of the Tonhalle and the Bauschänzli. In 2014, the Stubete am See opened for the first time on Friday evening with the Stubete Ball in the small Tonhallensaal.

With a parallel children's program, younger concert-goers have also been welcome at the Stubete am See since 2014.

The golden swan

Dä goldig Schwan (German: the golden swan) is a prize that the audience at the Stubete am See awards for a compulsory piece via internet voting. Each formation receives the same piece of music, which it includes in its own arrangement in its concert program.

year Compulsory piece winner
2008 Mazurka 3343 from Appenzell bard
2010 3 landlords from the Altfrentsch collection Rämschfädra
2012 Bürgenstock polka momoll
2014 A piece with a given barrel organ Chammerart

The country orchestra

The Stubete am See awards various commissioned compositions. One of these will be written for the country orchestra. In 2006 the Engadin clarinetist Domenic Janett had the idea of ​​uniting all the instruments of Swiss folk music in one orchestra. In 2008, the first Stubete am See provided the perfect setting to implement this idea. Since then, the country orchestra - albeit with a slightly different line-up - has become the house orchestra of the Stubete am See and a work has been composed every two years.

year composer title
2008 Domenic Janett Lander Rhapsody
2010 Dani Häusler Waldstätter fantasy
2012 Markus Flückiger Sleep dance
2014 Thommaso Huber Alpine metamorphoses

Sound carrier

The concerts of the Stubete am See are usually recorded. Some of the recordings have been released:

  • Stubete am See 2008 a cross-section of the festival
  • Stubete am See 2010 a cross-section of the festival
  • Lander Orchestra: Domenic Janett Lander Rhapsody , Dani Häusler Waldstätter Fantasy
  • Stubete am See 2012 a cross-section of the festival
  • Stubete am See 2014 a cross-section of the festival
  • Lecture by Peter Roth : "Sound and alpine culture - the importance of natural tones"

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