Profound poetry, heart-rending stories, and charmingly witty storytelling—all of this is poetry slam. And since the Nuremberg Symphony Orchestra is doing something like this, they're naturally inviting one of the very best: Michael Jakob, the uncrowned king of the scene. As the winner of over 100 local poetry slams throughout Germany, Austria, and Switzerland, he's a master of the art. From his many superb successes, he offers us the best of the best. Added to this is Markus Becker, an exceptional pianist who is not only adept in classical music—here together with the Nuremberg Symphony's wind quintet—and in sometimes witty, cheeky, sometimes gripping French music—but also a true master as an improviser and jazz pianist. He invents tunes like a slammer invents words. If that isn't a battle...

POETRY SLAM WITH MICHAEL JAKOB The best of the best-of

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North and South American rhythms – in Leonard Bernstein's "West Side Story" they characterize the two rival gangs, the Jets and the Sharks. Bernstein arranged some numbers from the now famous musical as a suite, which conquered the concert stage as "symphonic dances."
Just like George Gershwin's "Rhapsody in Blue," in which jazz elements, blues and symphonic music merge together. The African-American composer Florence Price is considered a rediscovery, and her "Suite of Dance" will be heard. Darius Milhaud's dance-like cinema fantasy "The Ox on the Roof" and the rhythmic piece "Huapango" by the Mexican José Pablo Moncayo will also be heard. 

Markus Becker

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Oct 31, 2025

POETRY SLAM WITH MICHAEL JAKOB The best of the best-of · Nuremberg Symphony Orchestra

Feb 16, 2025

Rhapsody & Rhythm · Berliner Symphoniker

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Piano in Boléro by Ravel

Nuremberg Symphony Orchestra

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