Category: Symphonic / Orchestral , Recordings , Film Music
Composing the official Soundscape for Siemens' 150th birthday in 1997 was a great project that culminated in three events. 1) There was the exciting feature film "Fantasy for a New Age"with an earwormlike Main theme. 2) There was an international festive banquet soiree in the Berlin ICC with thousands of guests and - polystilistically - six music ensembles from Australia, Africa, China, North America, South America and Greece, 3) and there was a multimedia final concert "Global Symphony" (composed together with Martin Ernst/Cologne) in the ICC for 5000 guests, in which musicians from all continents of Japan, Sidney, New York, Cape Town played simultaneously - at the same touching moment - via satellite with the Symphonie-Orchester der Deutschen Oper Berlin (conducted by Johannes Wildner). It was a demonstration of Siemens telecommunications technology in the sense of "We are a global family" with exciting and touching results.
Introduction: Composing the official Soundscape for Siemens' 150th birthday in 1997 was a great project that culminated in three events. 1) There was the exciting feature film "Fantasy for a New Age" (director: Richard J. Caesar) with an earwormlike Main theme. 2) There was an international festive banquet soiree in the Berlin ICC with thousands of guests and - polystilistically - six music ensembles from Australia, Africa, China, North America, South America and Greece, 3) and there was a multimedia final concert "Global Symphony" (composed together with Martin Ernst/Cologne) in the ICC for 5000 guests, in which musicians from all continents of Japan, Sidney, New York, Cape Town played simultaneously - at the same moment - via satellite with the Symphonie-Orchester der Deutschen Oper Berlin (conducted by Johannes Wildner). It was a demonstration of Siemens telecommunications technology in the sense of "We are a global family" with exciting and touching results.
After the 40-minute concert, including live video transmission from all continents, which culminated in the song "Visions" (sung by musical star Patricia Nessy; lyrics by Rainer Wallraf), we all fell into each other's arms close to tears: we had not really thought it possible to do the live mix (audio & video) on the 15-metre-long mixing console that spanned the entire continent... It was an emotional explosion and - after 2 months of international rehearsals - a dense compression of musical expressiveness that we all could never forget: a climax of musical density.
My personal highlight, which was a decisive soft spot in my biography, was the meeting with the Chinese sheng soloist Wu Wei, with whom I have been working since 1997 and who had opened the fascinating "Gateway to China" for me, ...since then, five concerts for sheng and orchestra have been created with performances in Beijing, Xiamen, Shanghai, Xiamen, Quanzhou, Hong Kong, Taipei, Kaohsiung, Singapore, among others.
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At youtube you find the „Global Concert“, (the last 10 minutes of Part III) with link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CqM4da-AhZ8
Additional remarks: The music for the 150th birthday of Siemens by Enjott Schneider, performed on three days from 10th-12th October 1007 in ICC Berlin
Records: MS München / GEMA, 1997
Performers on recording: 1. 'Fantasy for a new age' Symphonic Suite, performed by musicians of the Munich Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by N.J. Schneider,
2. 'A Melody goes round the world' six ethno-versions composed with Andreas Weidinger and Christian Auer 'Birth of Dawn' with Dean Wilmington, (didgeridoo) and Tina Marsden, flute, 'Heartbeat of Greece' with Jannis Zotos and Nevzat Akpinar (guitar, bouzouiki, saz), 'Blue Alley' with Klaus Reichstaller (trumpet), Martin Scales (guitar), Paolo Cardoso (bass), 'Silent Speech' with Wu Wei (sheng, lu sheng, ba wu, erhu) and Wang Wei (perc), 'Princessa Nightingale' with Lilian Vieria (vocals) and Kiko Pedrozo (harp), 'Mama Wati Celebration' with Mrcire Dioubate (balafon), Famadi Sako (djembe), Luiz Santos (congas, gougas)
3. Popsong 'Visions' (N.J. Schneider with Martin Ernst and Rainer Wallraf, arr. by Frank Buohler), performed by Patricia Nessy (vocals)
