Das Schofar - Der Klang Des Ewigen Rufs – Schloss Friedenstein Gotha, Gotha

About this event

The eternal call that never falls silent. It can be soft or loud, melancholic or combative. Yet in the very moment we listen to it, it becomes our own. Few instruments could be more primal than the horn. First an object of the hunt, later of rites and ceremonies—its sound was both warning and promise. In Jewish tradition, the shofar raises its voice in prayer—in a wordless song, the ram’s horn becomes a medium, a spiritual echo of the longing for the absolute. The physical technique of blowing the shofar, the improvisatory shaping of pitches and pauses, and the ritual embedding of the instrument demonstrate how music in a religious context can be functional, aesthetic, and symbolic at once. In this immediacy lies deep symbolic power, for the shofar becomes a medium that is not only heard but above all experienced—it inevitably addresses both body and soul. Theodor W. Adorno often emphasized that music expresses emotions and meanings beyond linguistic mediation; the shofar is an archetypal example of this.

Cast & creative

• B

  Shofar

  Bar Zemach
• J

  Piano

  Jascha Nemtsov
• A

  Violin

  Alexej Barchevitch