TANGO PUR! Europäische Sommerphilharmonie und -Chor 2025

In the organizer's words:

TANGO PUR! (world premiere)

David Timm - composition and direction
Jürgen Karthe - bandoneon
Carambolage Octet
Participants of the European Summer Philharmonic Orchestra and Choir 2025 from Poland, the Czech Republic, Romania, Ukraine and Germany, among others, will sing and perform

The European Summer Philharmonic Orchestra and Choir 2025 is part of the Capital of Culture project "Moving Sounds - Concertina & Bandoneon". The invention of the concertina by Carl Friedrich Uhlig in Chemnitz in 1834 marked the birth of the bandoneon in Chemnitz. To pay tribute to Carl Friedrich Uhlig and the Erzgebirge instrument makers who exported the bandoneon all over the world, this story will be told in 2025 and, with the bandoneon, will bring the Tango Argentino back from Buenos Aires to the Capital of Culture 2025 as a world cultural heritage.
In the commissioned work Tango Pur!, the threads of instrumental history that stretch from the former textile industry city of Chemnitz - the Saxon Manchester - into the world are interwoven with the concertina as the piano of the little man, the concertina workers' associations, the blending of Latin American folklore with the songs and dances of migrants from Poland, Germany, Italy, Spain, Ireland and Portugal in the melting pot of immigrants in Buenos Aires to create the Tango Argentino. The legendary golden age, the salonability in Europe, the Finnish form and the revival by Astor Piazzolla are facets of a worldwide enthusiasm in which the bandoneon is the musical soul and the meeting of hearts can be experienced in dance. In our opinion - a very beautiful symbol for the European Capital of Culture 2025.

The European Summer Philharmonic and Choir 2025 is part of the project "Shaping the future with diverse roots | S rozmanitými kořeny tvořit budoucnost", which takes place as part of the German-Czech cooperation of the lead partner Sächsischer Musikrat e.V. and the two project partners Sächsische Mozart-Gesellschaft e.V. and Základní umělecká škola T. G. Masaryka Chomutov, in the "Interreg Saxony - Czech Republic 2021-2027" program.

An event organized by the Sächsische Mozart-Gesellschaft e.V. as part of the project "Moving Sounds - Concertina & Bandoneon" of the European Capital of Culture Chemnitz 2025 GmbH.

The concert on 8 July 2025 on Chemnitz Theaterplatz is a cooperation between www.meisterwerke-produktion.de and the Sächsische Mozart-Gesellschaft e.V.