»Freedom! 250 Jahre Declaration of Independence«

250 years of independence, 250 years of freedom! On July 4, 1776, the 13 British colonies declared their independence and thus founded
the USA: a major step towards freedom and self-determination. What does this freedom look like today, a quarter of a millennium
later? Perhaps in The Unanswered Question , Charles Ives was contemplating the contradictory nature of man’s
impatience and desperation to find quick answers to profound questions. At any rate, this is how Leonard Bernstein interpreted the
and musical development of his compatriot’s work. Even in his own work, the piano concerto-like Second Symphony
The Age of Anxiety, inspired by the poem of the same name by W. H. Auden, Bernstein is concerned with the big questions of humanity, which
four lonely strangers ask themselves in a New York bar. The American pianist Claire Huangci gets to the bottom of these questions with technical
sophistication and emotional depth. We get a different perspective on America with Antonín Dvořák’s Ninth Symphony From the New World, for which he found world-famous melodies and timbres during his tenure at the National Conservatory of Music in New York; all perfectly in the spirit of the hopeful idea of freedom of the then still young state.