Culture in Einbeck - We look back on a spring full of highlights!

Einbeck, 31.05.2024

In spring 2024, several cultural events with an outstanding artistic line-up delighted guests in Einbeck. KWS has been sponsoring cultural highlights of various formats for years and we are delighted to contribute to making them accessible to the Einbeck public as a sponsor, thereby also expressing our commitment to the region.

KULTURKRAFTTAGE

The cultural spring was opened by the KULTURKRAFTTAGE from 14 to 17 March at PS.SPEICHER. For the third year in a row, the audience enjoyed a varied programme of music and literature. Outstanding artists and a well-known actor, dubbing artist and audio book narrator from German television ensured that the festival weekend attracted a record number of visitors. More about the KULTURKRAFTTAGEN 2024

At the Wilhelm Bendow Theatre on 11 April, the Göttingen Symphony Orchestra enchanted its guests young and old with the musical fairy tale ‘Peter and the Wolf’: a combination of a fairy tale and orchestral instruments that gave each character and animal in the story a character and a voice. The family concert thus pursued the composer's aim of familiarising children with the instruments of an orchestra and making it easier for them to enter the world of classical music.

The story was told of a boy called Peter, who was represented by the multi-faceted violins with a cheerful melody, his grandfather, various animals and the wolf who swallows a duck.

Numerous pupils from Einbeck schools attended the concert, which allowed them to experience classical music in a unique way and turned it into a special event.

Handel concert

On 14 May, French musician Michel Godard and his ensemble welcomed visitors to the PS.SPEICHER's PS.Halle with "Light the Earth: Incantations". The concert was part of the annual Göttingen International Handel Festival, the world's oldest festival for early music. Godard is known as a serpent evoker. With the curved historical brass instrument, he took the audience on a journey through melancholy arias by George Frideric Handel, which he sonorously combined with his own works as well as works by Jean de la Fontaine and Michel Lambert.

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