Hornist

The eternal call that never falls silent. It can be soft or loud, melancholic or combative. But the moment we listen to it, it becomes our own. Few instruments could be more primal than the horn. Initially an object of hunting, later of rites and ceremonies, its sound was a warning and a promise. In Jewish tradition, the shofar raises its voice in prayer. In "Niggun David," a wordless chant, the ram's horn becomes a medium, a spiritual echo of the longing for the absolute. Dmitri Shostakovich's Symphony No. 6, however, strikes a different tone. Here, we hear the turmoil of the 20th century, the voice of a man
searching for truth amidst political storms. The symphony begins in somber contemplation, as if a call were coming from a distant world. But soon the mood changes – irony, mockery, and grotesque dances break through the gravity and reveal a world in which the tragic and the absurd are inextricably linked. The call of the music, however, remains, sometimes as a warning, sometimes as a desperate cry.

A1 SHPILMAN, GLIÈRE & SHOSTAKOVICH – The Eternal Call

State Theatre Eisenach

Gotha Cultural Center

Two days before the Day of Remembrance for the Victims of National Socialism, the Kammermusikfreunde invite you to an extraordinary concert evening dedicated to ostracised music. The first part of the concert will focus on works by Polish-Jewish composers whose work was persecuted under the Nazi regime and suppressed from musical life for a long time. The second part of the evening opens up new perspectives: Three German-Jewish cantors and a shofar (reverberating trombone) player present Jewish liturgical music - from traditional chants from Eastern Europe to compositions from the German and American liberal synagogue. The shofar, one of the oldest surviving instruments in the Bible and still an integral part of Jewish services today, lends the concert a special spiritual depth.

Hornist

Bar Zemach

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Jan 25, 2026

Bar Zemach / Linus Roth / Jascha Nemtsov · Elbphilharmonie

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18 - 19 Sep, 2025

A1 SHPILMAN, GLIÈRE & SHOSTAKOVICH – The Eternal Call · Thüringen Philharmonie Gotha-Eisenach

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