Musical reading "Future Music"

“The life and soul of the world is love,” sings Andre Chenier in Giordano’s opera of the same name, thus answering Goethe’s Faust’s question about “what holds the world together at its core.”

In their search for answers to humanity's great challenges, such as religious and resource wars, environmental destruction, overpopulation, and rising nationalism, Peggy Steiner and Michael Heim arrive at the same conclusion: the solution, the salvation of humankind, lies in empathy and compassion. From feelings, and most beautifully from the strongest of them, love, comes everything we call art and culture, everything that connects us at our core.

We must let go of our perceptions of the enemy; we must learn to see and understand ourselves as a global family. If we succeed in this, humanity faces a glorious future. How this can be achieved, and what significance and support art and culture can offer on this path, will be explored in the musical reading "Future Music" by Peggy Steiner and Michael Heim.

Not only do Jürgen Drewermann, Goethe, Aristotle, Daniele Ganser or Ken Jebsen have their say with their analyses of the inner and outer world of man, but the music of Wagner, Schubert, Bernstein, Puccini also shines light into the hearts of the listeners, "to show these secrets that connect all people," as Leo Tolstoy so wonderfully summed up the meaning of art.