lectureconcerts
Music explains itself through play.
Music
in context
In short
SETTING
Compact concert format in which music and moderation interlock — letting curated content and musical examples open up deeper experience and understanding.
Principle
Through precise moderation and animation, paired with live musical examples, we cultivate understanding of symphonic processes and provide engaging listening guides — musical signposts, in a sense.
Audience
A format for the curious of every age: suitable for connoisseurs and newcomers, school classes, students and festival audiences. The neutral, accessible language gives everyone a more confident way into (symphonic) music.
Sunday, 7 June 2026 — Konservatorium Dreilinden, Lucerne
«The Romantic Revolution»
Three Lecture Recitals* in one afternoon. In between: apéro, conversation, and an exhibition on the music-historical context.
Joseph Sieber, piano & moderation
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a lecture concert – for your audience?
From autumn 2026 the format can be set up practically anywhere with little effort — with your orchestra, in your city, for your audience.
Three programs will be available from autumn 2026. More detailed information to follow.
Facts
This type of concert became world-famous from 1958 through Leonard Bernstein's Young People's Concerts, and has found no comparably prominent successors since.
As a great admirer of Bernstein, Joseph Sieber has been experimenting with such approaches since his earliest days as a conductor, and has since made it a partial specialism.
These are part of a set of mutually complementary formats for symphony orchestras — produced and distributed by the music-outreach initiative Simple Symphony, for clients worldwide.