Cultural tips
The autumn blues prevail in Brunnen and Zug, Janine Jansen is playing in the KKL and a film about Emil is in the Bourbaki
Our region offers an exciting cultural program every week to discover, immerse yourself and enjoy. Here you will find our seven selected tips.
Autumn: Young blood and old acquaintances
Things really get going at the cultural festival “Der Herbst” next Wednesday with the Ensemble Ambäck (Wednesday, October 16th), which has developed a new form of dance music. The already furious live band with the Schwyzerörgeli world champion Markus Flückiger, Andreas Gabriel (violin) and Pirmin Huber (double bass) is reinforced by Bernhard Betschart. With the Juuzer, the trio presents a best-of program put together especially for the festival. A week later, Markus Flückiger will be on stage again with guitarist Max Lässer’s Überlandorchester (Wednesday, October 23rd, Kammermusiksaal, Vitznau), which brings the traditions of Alpine music into today.
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Young blood and old acquaintances at the Inner Schwyz cultural festival “Der Herbst”
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Every 8.30 p.m., Seehotel Waldstätterhof, Brunnen (unless otherwise noted); the remaining concerts not mentioned are already sold out, www.derherbst.ch.
KKL: Timpani of Fate announces Zarathustra
Janine Jansen plays her way through Beethoven’s lines, scales and arpeggios.
Bild: Marco Borggreve
Pathos and significant splendor accompany the Lucerne Symphony Orchestra’s season opening. The Dutch Janine Jansen plays Beethoven’s radiant Violin Concerto in D major. And an encounter with Nietzsche and his philosophy is represented in the symphonic poem “Also Sprach Zarathustra” by Richard Strauss. Based on the philosopher’s work, the composer wrestles with nature and humanity, good and evil. This contradiction is expressed in the alternation between two main keys and remains until the end. The categories cancel each other out. For Strauss, this was tantamount to breaking out of the narrow moral standards of his Catholic environment. If you don’t like this approach, you might feel better visually: the opening scene of “2001: A Space Odyssey” by director Stanley Kubrick lives from the build-up of tension in Strauss’ work.
His father was a confidant of the last symphonist in the Soviet Union – Michael Sanderling via Dimitri Shostakovich
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Wednesday, October 16th and Thursday, October 17th, 7:30 p.m., KKL Lucerne.
Sursee: New festival not just for night owls
He is a Notteler in Sursee, hip-hop fan, rapper, former “Braustationler” – and initiator of the Nachteulen Festival in Sursee. At the “BrauStation” Sursee, Christian “Gimi” Büchler was responsible for events, he performed as rapper Gimoni himself, and it was always his dream to have his own festival. Now he himself has made sure that the dream comes true. The genre-themed evenings from Thursday to Sunday in the Stadthalle are each led by a headliner: Milky Chance (pop), Wanda (rock), Kool Savas (hip-hop) and James Bay (singer-songwriter). With the different genres of music, there should be something for everyone; It ends at plus/minus 11 p.m. Please also read the report from October 3rd.
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“It’s time to close the gap with a larger cultural event”
Swiss blues rock in a double pack in Zug
Colleague Stefan Künzli gave five stars in March for the double album “Live: Access All Areas” by the Ellis Mano Band. The Swiss band of international stature proves that they are also a force live. The quintet around singer Chris Ellis and guitarist Edis Mano plays with dynamics, explores moods and creates tension. Not enough with handmade music for blues rock fans. There is the young Thun singer and guitarist Lucky Wüthrich, who no longer wants to be reduced to blues and opens up stylistically on his second album “My Kind of Music”; for funk, soul, gospel, country, ballads and even bluegrass. Of course there is still a lot of classic blues and blues rock there. A promising Swiss double evening.
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The Ellis Mano Band makes world-class blues rock and defies the constraints of Swiss pop music
Dance: Ageism in Ballet Culture
The piece “ever.body” explores the topic of ageism by exploring taboos surrounding retirement issues in the context of contemporary ballet culture. Sol Bilbao Lucuix (1981, Spain) is a dancer, performer, choreographer. Fabrizio Di Salvo (1981, Baselland) deals with facets of sound art. As a dancer in her 40s, Sol’s personal experience from young to mature dancer is an important part of this project, which will premiere in January 2025 and is now presented in residency sharing.
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Thursday, October 10th, 7 p.m., Südpol, Kleine Halle, Lucerne; www.sudpol.ch.
Comedian Harmonists im KKL
The six musicians cultivate the 1920s charm of their idols.
Image: Oliver Betke
In 1997 they emerged from the cast of a tribute play (“Veronika, der Lenz ist da”). Today the Berlin Comedian Harmonists travel the globe with their current line-up including a pianist. They bring the audience closer to the sound of their predecessors, the original Berlin vocal ensemble from the 20s and 30s. But time doesn’t stand still. Songs by Reinhard Mey (“Über den Wolken”) and Nena (“99 Luftballons”) are also on the program in Lucerne. Of course, still in the barbershop style of your idols.
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Sunday, October 13th, 5 p.m., KKL Lucerne.
Homage to the comedian Emil
Unforgettable: Emil on a circus tour. Typical Emil.
Filmstill: Filmcoopy
“Typically Emil”, the documentary film about the life and career of 91-year-old Lucerne resident Emil Steinberger, will be shown as a gala premiere at the Zurich Film Festival from this Thursday. But you don’t have to go to Zurich: there are two previews at the Bourbaki Lucerne cinema in the presence of Emil and Niccel Steinberger. The tickets are in demand, especially the ones for 8 p.m. The official start in German-speaking Switzerland is on Thursday, November 7th – the day before it runs at 12.15 p.m. in the lunch cinema. You can then read in detail by and about Emil.
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46 years after “The Swiss Makers”: Emil brings a new film to the cinema
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