Music for Future: The Podcast

Children and young people from the Lucerne region take on the role of cultural journalists. They attend school concerts and report on them, write short presentations, and conduct interviews, accompanied and coached by Lucerne Festival. In this way, they come into contact with classical music and process their experiences in short, age-appropriate podcasts. Additional information about our offers for schools and conservatories can be found here. 

The students of class 3C from Emmenbrücke attended the school concert “The Carnival of the Animals” given at the KKL Luzern by the Munich Philharmonic Orchestra and share how they enjoyed the experience, which animals particularly impressed them, and how this kind of concert in a large hall affected them.

As part of “In the Streets,” the world music festival within the Summer Festival, the Malagasy singer Talike Gellé and her band Talike n’Beko played a concert for around 180 students on the grounds of the Unterlöchli School in Lucerne. What did it sound like? We were there!

“With whom is Bach having a row?” Michael, Renate, Toril, and Hanna attended the Family Concert “Krach mit Bach” (“Make a Noise with Bach”) at Lucerne Hall in the KKL and now join together as a reporting team to talk about their Festival experience.

“Do you ever get stage fright?” Norina and Timea were curious about this and much more when they met with Theo Plath, the Frankfurt Radio Symphony’s principal bassoon player, following his school concert at the cantonal school Reussbühl during the 2024 Summer Festival.

Some 20 students from the Lucerne Music School’s Piano Department attended the final concert of the 2024 Piano Fest featuring Igor Levit, Lukas Sternath, Johanna Summer, and members of the Berliner Barock Solisten. During intermission, we met with Anna, Livia, and Annaluisa on the terrace of the KKL Luzern and talked about their impressions. (Interview in German)

Two primary school classes from the Lucerne region attended the opening concert of the Spring Festival. They played Beethoven with newspapers, met Reinhold Friedrich, principal trumpeter of the Lucerne Festival Orchestra, and enjoyed the Lucerne Festival Orchestra with Riccardo Chailly. During the intermission, we met up with class 5b from Kriens and spoke with the children and class teacher Rachel Howald.

“How much do you earn as a professional musician?” In the summer of 2023, the brass players of the Berliner Philharmoniker performed a school concert. Afterwards, Ivan, a pupil at the Kantonsschule Reussbühl, put trumpeter Berthold Stecher on the spot. (Interview in German)

How long do they practice every day and how do they feel onstage: Flavia and Luisa wanted to ask the members of the Isidore String Quartet to share their responses and met with the four Americans for a chat after their performance in the auditorium of the Kantonsschule Reussbühl.

When you see professional musicians playing the horn on a garden hose and children being allowed to help out onstage, you know it’s a special school concert of elementary school students at the KKL Luzern, invited there by Lucerne Festival. Class 4C from Adligenswil tells us how the 1,000 or so visitors enjoyed it. (Interview in German)

Mozart curses, Bach gets kicked out: Class 4C from Adligenswil knows how the DuoCalva’s cello comedy "Im Himmel" (“In Heaven”) went down with the 700 or so schoolchildren who attended. (Interview in German)

Devil Lucius and angel Angela paid a visit to the smoking, steaming Lucerne Hall in the KKL. In the music theater piece "Der Teufel mit den goldenen Löckchen" (“The Devil with the Golden Curls”) the schoolchildren had to lend a hand and sing to free a trapped bassoon quartet from hell, as reported by class 4C from Adligenswil. (Interview in German)