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Since years the steel factory in Neunkirchen (Saarland) is shut down. In 1989 the Prime Minister at the time Mr. Oskar Lafontaine follows an instigation of Eberhard Schoener to perform an industrial symphony at there to bring back life to the steel factory for one night. A gigantic lightshow is illuminating the steel towers, to bring the shut down blast furnaces back to glowing heat. On stage the State Orchestra of the Saarland is playing with rock-musicians, a brass-band performs, electronic. Gianna Nannini is singing songs of the Italian revolution, Jack Bruce is singing Brecht/Weill - the pitmen are amazed. The Broadcast station of Saarland is televising the symphony.

1993 Eberhard Schoener is creating the Opening Event for the 4th World Championships in Athletics in Stuttgard: He is translating his dream of a world concert into reality. It takes him a whole year to prepare the event. Musicians out of all five continents are playing together with the musicians on five stages at the Gottlieb Daimler Stadium in Stuttgart live via satellite. From Bali again the Gamelan Orchestra of Saba & Pinda of Prince Agung Raka is present. In Australia Eberhard Schoener gets together with David Hudson who is proud to be of Aborigines descent and taking Eberhard back to his village. David Hudson is playing Didgeridoo and is dancing. Sarah Hopkins, the most famous avant-garde musician of Australia, is accompanying the Didgeridoo with her drums and tubes, which creates a vibrating sound. In Salvador di Bahia Margarete Menezes is singing to the rhythms, which Carlinhos is beating, accompanied by Armandinho Macedo, the most famous player of the Mandolin in Brazil. The singer Nasser Kalido and three more Egyptian musicians from the citadel in Kairo join in. Eberhard Schoener has included the time delays caused by the transmission in his world composition. Two satellites are needed to transmit all the information. It is the first world concert of that kind in which not sequential but simultaneous music was played. It is the so far biggest challenge in logistics of all of Eberhards projects.

Schoeners Oper im Netz
Schoeners Oper im Netz