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Hear Here! 2008 is a year of listening - live, online and on air
17 August 2008
Listening. It sounds so simple. Take your seat in the concert hall, sit back and listen. Put on a CD, turn up the volume and soak up the sounds. But, are we really listening? Or, are we losing the ability to truly listen and turning music into a barely-noticed audio backdrop for other activities?
Throughout 2008, Hear Here! - the UK’s first classical music project devoted to listening, has been exploring the many different facets of listening to music; from the concert experience to how the ear works, how musicians listen, to the effect that memory and nostalgic association has on our capacity to listen.... and much, much more.
This August, Hear Here! reaches Edinburgh, linking up with the Festival for a performance of Brahms’ epic German Requiem by The Monteverdi Choir/Orchestra Révolutionnaire et Romantique conducted by Sir John Eliot Gardiner at Usher Hall on 19 August. Listen here to Sir John Eliot Gardiner talk about the emotional impact of the works that will be performed here, or read about his thoughts on the work online at www.hearhere.org.uk.
To read more about Festival 08 visit our blog Festival Insider at www.eif.co.uk/blog
