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The Notos Quartet will perform forgotten composers on Sunday, September 15. © Ensemble Notos Quartett
From Elvis to Milonga, everything is there. Top-class events include the Westfalen Classics chamber music festival and the 11th Mord am Hellweg literature festival
Soest district – The region is slowly moving into autumn with a sensual and multifaceted music program. This includes top-class events such as the Westfalen Classics chamber music festival, the 11th Murder on the Hellweg literature festival, a milonga evening and a tribute to Elvis.
Weekend tips: Homage to Elvis
“Rio – The Voice of Elvis” will be stopping in Werl with a big band and choir on its “Gospel Session & Elvis in Concert ’77” tour on Saturday, September 14th. From 8 p.m., the show will return to Elvis’ roots, gospel, in the Werl town hall. In the second set, the show will present the greatest highlights of his tours. With titles such as “And I Love You So” and “Unchained Melody,” Rio and his ensemble will give an insight into the legend’s last concerts. Tickets are available at the box office and in advance from the Werl town information office, telephone 02922/8703500 and www.hellwegticket.de
Weekend tips: Comedy at the train station
John Doyle will be stopping off at the Werl Kulturbahnhof on Saturday, September 14. The comedian will be presenting his current program “Life is adventure enough.” It starts at 8 p.m. Tickets are available in advance for 15 euros at hellwegticket.de and advance booking offices, and for 18 euros at the box office.
Weekend tips: Forgotten music
The Notos Quartet from Berlin wants to re-establish unknown and forgotten piano quartet works in the concert repertoire on Sunday, September 15th, from 6 p.m. in the Jakobikirche in Lippstadt. These include works by Franz Schubert, Béla Bartók and Johannes Brahms. Romantic, elegiac and exuberant, the quartet takes you into late-romantic sound worlds. Tickets from the KWL on 02941/58511, or at the box office.
Weekend tips: Westfalen Classics
The Westfalen Classics chamber music festival opens its autumn edition with the Echo-Klassik award-winning ensemble Spark on Friday, September 13th, at 7 p.m. in the hall of the Lönne company in Lippstadt, Bertramstrasse 9. The ensemble brings together three icons of Western music: Johann Sebastian Bach as the forefather of classical art music, Luciano Berio as one of the most influential composers of the 20th century and the Beatles as titans of pop music. Tickets at www.westfalenclassics.de, telephone 02941/2737194.
Weekend tips: Milonga celebrations
At the Milonga, the dance festival of Argentine tango, the Suzanna Tango Project Trio with Suzanna (vocals), Alice Dixon (cello) and Gerhard A. Schiewe (accordion) will be playing on Friday, September 13th, from 8 p.m. in the Schützenhalle Einigkeit, Danziger Ring 26, in Soest. The organizer is the Matadero Tango Club Soest. Tickets are available at www.so-ist-soest.de or at the box office.
Weekend tips: snacking on wild berries
During the culinary forest walk with BUND-Soest on Sunday, September 15th, from 2 to 4 p.m., you can nibble on wild berries, wild herbs and nuts. During the two-hour forest walk at Möhnesee, forest plants, recipes and forest etiquette will be presented. The meeting point and carpool is at 1:15 p.m. at the BUND Naturoase, Ulrichertor 4, Soest.
Weekend tips: Murder on the Hellweg XI
The opening show for the literature festival Mord am Hellweg XI in Unna on Saturday, September 14th, at 7 p.m. in the Kurpark offers pure excitement. The Dortmund cabaret artist Fritz Eckenga puts the crime genre to the test and is supported by Sascha Ott (“Die Physikanten”), authors such as Ursula Poznanski and actor Peter Lohmeyer. Tickets: www.mordamhellweg.de.
