Music for Future: The Podcast

Interview with the musician Berthold Stecher | photo © Monika Rittershaus

Children and young people from the Lucerne region take on the role of cultural journalists. They attend school concerts and report on them, write short presentations, and conduct interviews, accompanied and coached by Lucerne Festival. In this way, they come into contact with classical music and process their experiences in short, age-appropriate podcasts.

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School classes visit the 2024 Spring Festival

Two primary school classes from the Lucerne region attended the opening concert of the Spring Festival. They played Beethoven with newspapers, met Reinhold Friedrich, principal trumpeter of the Lucerne Festival Orchestra, and enjoyed the Lucerne Festival Orchestra with Riccardo Chailly. During the intermission, we met up with class 5b from Kriens and spoke with the children and class teacher Rachel Howald.

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Interview with Berthold Stecher (Berliner Philharmoniker)

“How much do you earn as a professional musician?” In the summer of 2023, the brass players of the Berliner Philharmoniker performed a school concert. Afterwards, Ivan, a pupil at the Kantonsschule Reussbühl, put trumpeter Berthold Stecher on the spot. (Interview in German)

Interview with the Isidore String Quartet

How long do they practice every day and how do they feel onstage: Flavia and Luisa wanted to ask the members of the Isidore String Quartet to share their responses and met with the four Americans for a chat after their performance in the auditorium of the Kantonsschule Reussbühl.

School Concert with the Berliner Philharmoniker

When you see professional musicians playing the horn on a garden hose and children being allowed to help out onstage, you know it’s a special school concert of elementary school students at the KKL Luzern, invited there by Lucerne Festival. Class 4C from Adligenswil tells us how the 1,000 or so visitors enjoyed it. (Interview in German)

School Concert "Im Himmel" with the DuoCalva

Mozart curses, Bach gets kicked out: Class 4C from Adligenswil knows how the DuoCalva’s cello comedy "Im Himmel" (“In Heaven”) went down with the 700 or so schoolchildren who attended. (Interview in German)

School Concert “Der Teufel mit den goldenen Löckchen”

Devil Lucius and angel Angela paid a visit to the smoking, steaming Lucerne Hall in the KKL. In the music theater piece "Der Teufel mit den goldenen Löckchen" (“The Devil with the Golden Curls”) the schoolchildren had to lend a hand and sing to free a trapped bassoon quartet from hell, as reported by class 4C from Adligenswil. (Interview in German)