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Berlin 2012

Premiere Commission supports Lisa Bielawa's Templehof Broadcast

Award winning composer Lisa Bielawa's Tempelhof Broadcast will be a 60-minute piece for more than 600 musicians on the tarmac of the former Tempelhof Airport in Berlin. This site, famous for its role in the Berlin Airlift in 1948-49, is currently open to the public, unaltered, but in 2013 it will begin to evolve into a new role in the life of Berlin. On several days in September 2012, Bielawa will turn the abandoned runways into a vast musical canvas, as professional, amateur and student musicians execute a spatialized symphony. The massive event will begin in the center of the field and disperse outwards.

Read Lisa Bielawa's Article in the New York Times Opinionator column about the project