Concert at the Secondary School of Letmathe

 

»How does one become a composer? Where do the ideas come from? How does one decide which instrument should play? The composer Hans-Joachim Hessler from Dortmund answered student questions of this kind during his visit at the Letmathe Secondary School.
He thereby presented extracts of his piece �Picturesque Sceneries� which will sound in the school's auditorium within the context of the symphonic concert [...]. The piece tells the story of Anna, who is given a magic flute as a gift, with which she can plunge into the music of different countries.«

»[...] Right with the first piece, a selection from Joachim Hessler's �Picturesque Sceneries�, the orchestra introduces itself. �Instruments which one blows into, instruments which one beats, and instruments which one strokes� were presented to be looked at and listened to - when for instance the long bassoon or the huge timbale were shown, there were astounded exclamations.
[...] Highly interested, some of the students leaned forward with excited faces and some pieces were so groovy that they called forth the urge to move [...].
[...] The concert, however, also made it possible to give the students an understanding of many kinds of instruments, and to experience for once a real live-concert. �It contributed to the widening of the students' musical horizons [...]�, said Marcus Fornefeld.« (Iserlohn newspaper dated October 25, 2006).