Wien Modern 38 - The Great Learning

115 attempts at a calm approach to learning curves

We find ourselves in year 37 after the founding of Wien Modern. The population of Vienna has grown by an astonishing 37 percent. The challenge from 1988 – to finally bring the great masterpieces of the 20th century onto the big stages of this city – isn't really up to date anymore. Vienna feels noticeably different and less backward-looking than it did 37 years ago, at the low point of the population curve. What music is to be discovered in a growing, increasingly diverse metropolis? Which stages reach which people? Who stands on these stages and who doesn't? Is our cultural life evolving fast enough to keep up with the pace of social dynamics? Or is it still too backward-looking? And what can music, an astonishingly diverse, touching and inspiring art form, do to help us navigate the learning curves of the present as elegantly as possible?

Find out the programme of Wien Modern 38.