Poschner's Passion

Revival through music? It has a long history! And the sunrise in Richard Strauss's Also sprach Zarathustra (Thus Spoke Zarathustra) is a prominent example of this. It even inspired Elvis Presley. “Poschner's Passion” – our series with chief conductor Poschner and guest writer Alain Claude Sulzer.

This opening even made it into the cinema, in Stanley Kubrick's film 2001 – A Space Odyssey. The first bars of Richard Strauss's tone poem Also sprach Zarathustra (Thus Spoke Zarathustra). Bars in which the sun rises. This was also the case at a concert by Elvis Presley in Hawaii in 1973, where the King of Pop played and sang Strauss. Awakening in music, awakening through music, and why all this is so popular, especially in the era of Strauss and Gustav Mahler, when music is awakening to new forms, new life. A spirit of optimism in Poschner's Passion! An evening of music, images and language.