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Forms of "home" can be experienced directly in song; this experience takes on a special depth, especially in the Liedakademie, where young artists often explore and cultivate art song as an artistic home of choice beyond their own origins. In this panel, scholarship holders will discuss with Thomas Hampson, Günter Leypoldt and Elitsa Desseva how engaging with song changes their ideas of home(s) when they themselves become part of this history by singing, listening and interpreting it.
The closing panel marks the end of the theme day "American Song - Heimat(en) im Lied", which emerged from the collaboration with the Collaborative Research Center "Heimat(en)" at Heidelberg University and opens up a space for thinking and listening in which questions of home and musical self-positioning in the USA are up for discussion.
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For more information on American Song, visit the Song of America website , a project of the Hampsong Foundation, which provides a comprehensive archive of American Song and its cultural background.
Thomas Hampson
Artistic Director of the Liedakademie
Günter Leypoldt
Professor of American Culture and Literature at the University of Heidelberg
Elitsa Desseva
Piano and Liedakademie Director of Studies
Scholars of the Heidelberger Frühling Liedakademie
Professor of Musicology and Spokesperson for the SFB "Heimat(en)" at the University of Heidelberg
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