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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.
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