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Mediatheque Stories tagged #Backstage

»I respond to what I hear.«

Some background to »A House of Call. My Imaginary Notebook« by Heiner Goebbels.

Elbphilharmonie Innerview: Roderick Cox

For a universal right to music – The American conductor talks about the personal and social importance of music.

The Stream Team

The Elbphilharmonie is regularly transformed into a digital concert hall. Meet the team!

Classical Futures Europe

An EU project makes young musical talents fit for the international classical-music sector – with unusual methods.

Elbphilharmonie Innerview: vision string quartet

Desires, visions, ideas: the successful string quartet on the importance and future of the concert world.

Elbphilharmonie Innerviews: Vanessa Porter

The percussionist on a journey to the heart of the Elbphilharmonie and inward towards herself.

Elbphilharmonie Organ: The Pipe Cleaners

How do you get the dust off 4,765 pipes? Watch the videos to find out how the Elbphilharmonie organ is cleaned.

Superstitious?

What preoccupies musicians before a performance? About lucky charms, rituals and other habits.

Closely synchronised

A night spent with the Elbphilharmonie technicians.

Pay Up, Please!

The staff who run the Elbphilharmonie box offices talk about outbursts of joy, attempts at bribery and every evening's hope of getting the very last ticket.

Kidnapped from the Elbphilharmonie

The Pfefferkörner have been investigating cases in Hamburg’s Speicherstadt since 1999 – now they find themselves on a case at the Elbphilharmonie for the first time.

First Season in Pictures

Artists, photographs, emotions: 21 photographers documented the Elbphilharmonie’s first concert season. The result has been released as an impressive photo book.