Using artificial intelligence methods, a possible version of the symphony was created from Beethoven's existing musical sketches. To do this, the available data from Beethoven - symphonies, music sketches and scores - first had to be analyzed and prepared in a machine-readable format. The appropriate machine learning method was then selected and its algorithms adapted to the task. Language processing algorithms were used.

Under the direction of Matthias Röder from the Karajan Institute and The Mindshift agency, the team consisted of musicologist and Beethoven expert Robert Levin, Ahmed Elgammal (AI expert at Rutgers University), Mark Gotham (composition theorist at Cornell University), Walter Werzowa (composer) and Christine Siegert (Head of Research at the Beethoven-Haus). The work is to be performed by the Bonn Beethoven Orchestra in April 2020.

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According to the organizers, the concerts will be curated for the second time by Stephen Johns, Artistic Director of London's Royal College of Music (RCM). This year's guest conductors are Mark Biggins from the English National Opera and Felix Bagge from Lund University. The three young soloists, Julieth Lozano (soprano), Theodor Uggla (tenor) and Emily Sun (violin), have close links with the RCM. Jonathan Radford, an internationally renowned saxophonist, the RCM Chamber Ensemble, the Lund Switzerland Singers and the Klosters Festival Singers will also be performing.

Interview with Stephen Johns

In an in-depth interview with Veronika Studer-Kovacs, the artistic director of the Klosters Music Festival talks about developments in the classical music business, interpretation, the role of music festivals and his personal taste in music.

Link to the interview

In June 2018, the government of the canton of St. Gallen issued an ordinance setting the school fees to be paid by the school authority if a schoolchild attends the recognized talent school of another school authority. The city of St.Gallen lodged an appeal against this with the Federal Supreme Court, citing municipal autonomy. The court has now dismissed the appeal and found that the government was right to regulate the school fees by ordinance and to assess the amount correctly. Talent school providers may neither demand higher school fees from the school provider nor a contribution towards tuition from the parents.

The City of St.Gallen had caused uncertainty with regard to the school fees owed by issuing invoices to the school authorities that deviated from the cantonal requirements. It had also demanded a contribution towards tuition from the parents of the talented pupils. The Federal Supreme Court has now clarified that neither is permissible. In view of the constitutional guarantee that primary school lessons are free of charge, parents cannot be asked to contribute to the cost of lessons. They can only be charged for expenses incurred for the promotion of specific talents, such as instrumental lessons.

Thomas Pauli-Gabi's tenure as Head of the Culture Department included various major projects. One of Thomas Pauli-Gabi's main concerns was to give cantonal cultural policy a broad-based, strategic direction with the development and implementation of a cantonal cultural concept.

With various projects, Thomas Pauli-Gabi and his team helped to strengthen the canton of Aargau's self-image as a cultural canton. In 2015, for example, the canton celebrated the cantonal commemoration of 600 years of Aargau in the Swiss Confederation with the participation of the regions, a "Double Door" mediation concept was developed for the Jewish-Christian cultural heritage in Surbtal, a cantonal theme year "IndustrieWelt Aargau" was initiated in 2019/2020 and several cultural construction projects, such as the new Stapferhaus in Lenzburg and the Alte Reithalle in Aarau, were actively promoted.
 

The project deals with cableways in the canton of Uri and consists of two parts. The first part examines from a historical perspective how the development of the Alpine region by cable cars has changed the lives of the population, the use of mountain goods and the landscape itself over the past hundred years or so. In the second part of the project, a composition will be created from typical cable car noises, which will ultimately be presented to the public as a sound installation.

Romed Aschwanden, Managing Director of the Uri Institute Cultures of the Alps at the University of Lucerne, is responsible for the historical research. The researcher not only wants to use historical sources, but also conduct interviews with contemporary witnesses.

The musical part will be performed by Michel Roth. The composer, who grew up in the canton of Uri, is Professor of Composition and Music Theory, Analysis and Composition at the FHNW School of Music. Boris Previšić from the University of Lucerne is also involved in the project. The Swiss National Science Foundation is supporting the interdisciplinary cable car project with a grant. The project will be launched at the beginning of February and will be completed within a year.
 

The new platform is intended to bring the Norient community of over 700 artists from 50 countries closer together, generate commissions, pay fair fees and present their ideas for the future to a broad public.

However, this is all dependent on a successful crowdfunding campaign, which Norient will launch on the Startnext platform, write those responsible. If Norient survives, the 10th edition of the Norient Film Festival (NFF) will take place in Bern and Lausanne in January and February 2021.

As an oboe virtuoso with a worldwide reputation, Holliger experimented with advanced playing techniques, writes the University of Basel. He also rediscovered some forgotten musicians of the 18th century and inspired important contemporary composers to write new works.

As a composer, the 80-year-old explores the boundaries of sound and language, and as a conductor and organizer, he is committed to Basel's musical culture through significant institutional and artistic impulses.

Other honorary doctorates from Basel went to the pastor Martin Stingelin, the entrepreneur Klaus Endress and three researchers from the USA: the lawyer Bryan A. Stevenson, the cell biologist Randy W. Schekman and the psychologist Jerome R. Busemeyer.