Elisabeth Semrad: Reading
Roland Gratzer: text, reading
Helmut Wiener: alto saxophone, Bb clarinet
Georg Gratzer: soprano saxophone, bass clarinet, flute
Willibald Kulmer: tenor saxophone, Bb clarinet
Werner Reiter: tenor saxophone, baritone saxophone
Bernhard Schimpelsberger: percussion
Reinhard Summerer: Arrangement
The Kulm is more than just a mountain or a hill. The Kulm is the last elevation before the Eurasian steppe. For thousands of years, people have lived on this lonely monolith of forest, meadow and spirituality. The KOMM.ST Festival dedicates a unique concert reading to the first outpost of the European Alps in the east. A saxophone quartet with percussion, put together especially for this evening, leads through the concert experience, in which clarinets also have their worthy place. In between, there will be scenic readings that lead through the mystical and at the same time violent, special history of the Kulm.
The history of the Kulm
As there is no precise definition of a mountain in Austria, the Kulm can be described as a mountain despite its comparatively unimpressive 975 meters above sea level. According to current research, the first settlements were already established in the Stone-Copper Age, a period between 5500 and 2200 BC. This was a time when people began to work metals, marking the beginning of the first industrial revolution in human history. In the late Bronze Age, the people on the Kulm fortified the summit and created a living space for hundreds of people. The Kulm finally experienced its greatest heyday in the later Iron Age Iron Age, when the Celts built a proper town. A brooch discovered on the Kulm (an early safety pin) from the year 400 BC is one of the oldest Christ is one of the oldest proofs of the existence of Celts in Styria. Styria. In Roman times, the Kulm finally became a place used primarily for used for ritual and military purposes. It has remained both until the recent past.
Jakob Lorber
One name is particularly associated with the Kulm: Jakob Lorber (1800 - 1864). A successful composer in his younger years, who studied with Niccolò Paganini and played concerts with Franz Schubert, his life changed abruptly on abruptly on March 15, 1840. At six o'clock in the morning, an inner voice told him that from now on he was to be "the voice of grace of the Lord Jesus Christ". should be. Lorber threw away his previous life, lived from then on exclusively thanks to donations from his friends and wrote down 20,000 pages which were dictated to him by the voice. Where could he hear this voice hear this voice best? On the Kulm, of course. And this voice dictated to him some very questionable inspirations. He explained that all celestial bodies were organic, that there was a funnel-shaped mouth at the North Pole, which was connected by a connected to an excretory organ at the South Pole by a gastrointestinal tract. connected by a gastrointestinal tract. But first and foremost, he wrote about God and Jesus, who, according to Lorber is to reappear on earth in 2030. He also predicted return for the year 1920, but this has so far proved to be a mistake. turned out to be a mistake. Lorber was a charismatic man, preacher and prophet for some some, a cult leader suffering from paranoid schizophrenia for others.
The concert reading
The Kulm and the concert reading "Da Kulm" are as multi-layered as Lorber himself. concert reading "Da Kulm". Stories from thousands of years accompany a musical journey into one cosmos after another. Modern compositions, arranged by Reinhard Summerer, meet Gregorian chorales and Gregorian chorales and Celtic-Styrian popular songs. Just like the Kulm itself, the audience sits at the epicenter of a musical and narrative musical and narrative storm that will memorialize the most important mountain in Styria for one evening.
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