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  • Sounds that Bridge the Centuries: 500 years of reformation in Görlitz

    The year 2025 marks the 500th anniversary of the city’s alignment with the Reformation.The Reformation brought about profound transformations in ecclesiastical life, including significant developments in church music. Among the most notable was the introduction of vernacular languages into liturgical practice and sacred song.In collaboration with the Upper Lusatian Library of Sciences and the Silesian

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  • Witchcraft by a Picture

    The eleventh episode of Stories from the Black Kitchen. In this episode we talk about a paratext that can be found in John Dowland’s Second Booke of Songs or Ayres (1600), and about the power of musical magic. What does magic have to do with the modern world? The song that follows is written to

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  • The year 2024 was a special year in Görlitz, we celebrated the 400th anniversary of the death of the German mystic and philosopher Jacob Böhme. There were many events commemorating Böhme, and we also contributed our share to the musical side of the celebrations.

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  • On December 21 The Schoole will perform at Gleis 1 – KulTourPunkt at the train station (Bahnhof) in Görlitz. 19.00 Photo : Sascha Röhricht In the programme you will find the lute songs of John Dowland followed by our dark wave programme – songs written by Frank Pschichholz to the texts of John Donne, John

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