Ensemble Modern's concert series "How free is art?" is dedicated to the topic of artistic freedom and its limits with music and discussions.
In the talk concert "How free are ensembles?", Ensemble Modern managing director Christian Fausch discusses with Leonie Reineke, among other things, how performing artists deal with socio-political issues and the extent to which they should, must or may take a stand through the selection of works.
In "The Language of Water" (2021), Mexican composer Tania Rubio calls for the protection of natural resources. The Russian composer Vladimir Tarnopolski, who lives in Munich and was born in the former Soviet republic of Ukraine, says he is trying to appear apolitical in "Last and Lost" (2010). The German-Dutch composer Iris ter Schiphorst deals with the prominent whistleblower Julian Assange in "Assange - Fragmente einer Unzeit" (2019).
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