BYE BYE BTHVN

December 2020

This tour has been cancelled due to regulations implemented in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.

The MCO and Patricia Kopatchinskaja's ritual farewell to the idols of culture returns to close  and question  the global celebrations marking 250 years since Beethoven's birth.

This staged concert shrouds Beethoven's Violin Concerto, torn into pieces, in fragments from Cage, Kurtág, Ives, Haydn, Oliveros, Ligeti and Bach. Different eras, different styles collide, heightened by movement and light and set off waves of free association, free from overt narrative but packed with visceral sonic drama. Answered and unanswered questions are raised in this powerful collaboration: what have classical concerts become? And what could they be? But the focus is clear, as Kopatchinskaja has stated: "We don’t want to say goodbye to him... I want to say goodbye to a business that adores only the old monuments."

Bye Bye Beethoven was premiered by the MCO and Kopatchinskaja at the Hamburg International Festival in 2016, and has since been performed by them across Europe and in the United States, where it received its American premiere at the Ojai Festival in 2018.

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CONCERTS THIS TOUR

16 December 2020 Dortmund

Wednesday 20:00 / Konzerthaus Dortmund

CANCELLED

C. IVES / J. HAYDN / J. CAGE / J. S. BACH / G. KURTAG / L. v. BEETHOVEN / P. OLIVEROS
Patricia Kopatchinskaja violin / Louis Dupras stage coordinator / Ricarda Schnoor lighting

17 December 2020 Bruges

Thursday 20:00 / Concertgebouw Brugge

CANCELLED

C. IVES / J. HAYDN / J. CAGE / J. S. BACH / G. KURTAG / L. v. BEETHOVEN / P. OLIVEROS
Patricia Kopatchinskaja violin / Louis Dupras stage coordinator / Ricarda Schnoor lighting

18 December 2020 Berlin

Friday 20:00 / Konzerthaus Berlin

CANCELLED

C. IVES / J. HAYDN / J. CAGE / J. S. BACH / G. KURTAG / L. v. BEETHOVEN / P. OLIVEROS
Patricia Kopatchinskaja violin / Louis Dupras stage coordinator / Ricarda Schnoor lighting