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Ultraschall Berlin

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 June 2018

Sam Johnstone
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Extract

In an industry where the brand new and the first performance are fixated upon, Ultraschall Berlin is to be applauded for being less interested in presenting a glut of premieres than in cultivating a twenty-first-century tradition. At this year's festival, its twentieth edition, only a quarter of the 69 works performed were world premieres, with just four of them commissioned by the two organisations presenting the festival, state broadcasters rbb and Deutschlandfunk Kultur.

Type
FIRST PERFORMANCES
Information
Tempo , Volume 72 , Issue 285 , July 2018 , pp. 91 - 93
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2018 

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References

1 See www.newmusic.report for a comprehensive analysis, or rather a wall of shame, of the gender balance at major European festivals.

2 For a more convincing performance of the work, hear Juliette Hurel's world premiere performance with the Rotterdam Philharmonic under Yannick Nézet-Séguin: www.youtube.com/watch?v=XIl4t7wqv8M (accessed 9 March 2018).