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Wednesday, July 2, Sojus 7

Music in the tradition of New Orleans brass bands

Brass class of the music school and the Peter Ustinov Gesamtschule
Directors: Richard Brenner / Jörg Sommerfeld

Shannon Barnett: trombone

The Monheim music school offers musical specialisms in collaboration with the city’s secondary schools. At the Peter Ustinov Comprehensive School, these are the ‘brass classes’, in which pupils learn wind instruments and can make music together directly in an ensemble.

For the Monheim Triennale, signature artist Shannon Barnett visits a wind class from the sixth year. She brings music from the brass band tradition from the south of the USA, works with the children on the subject of improvisation and develops a performance for The Festival together with them.