Music as an Experiential World
A liberating, natural way of making music referred to as elementary music-making.
“Today’s School Students Are Tomorrow’s Audience”
mdw Rector Ulrike Sych and Harald Huber met with mdw Magazine to discuss educational shortcomings and solutions for the future.
Thoughts on Musical Bildung Today
The term "Bildung" is one of those German words that virtually defies translation, since its fundamental meaning can probably only be understood with reference to German intellectual history.
Special: Growing Up with Music
In no case should having the opportunity to take a playful approach to music be left to chance or depend on the musical interest of parents and teachers. And in this spirit, we’ve devoted the following pages to the significance of music education in its infinitely many facets.
Dealing with Criticism
Nestroy Award winner Felix Hafner, the author Marie Luise Lehner and Stefan Mendl, two-time Echo Klassik Award winner, talk about the significance of criticism for society.
Special: Criticism
Just where the term comes from etymologically, how artists deal with criticism, and why music criticism often devolves into mere music journalism.
Art Criticism Between Power and Change
May we permit ourselves to reject criticism? And would, absent criticism, the endeavours of art, music, and literature lose their social functions?
Music Criticism, 2018. A Job Description
Objectivity, Crisis and Ratings, Praise and Derision.
Special: Love
It’s sometimes all so simple, and then it seems horribly complicated. Sometimes it seems overemphasised, and then it seems like it’s the very point of everything.
Steeped in Music
Portrait of a Musician-Couple
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