At Lucerne Festival, Contemporary Music as a School of Life

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For three weeks, the Academy of Contemporary Music has been training young musicians, composers and conductors in luxurious conditions. The clarinettist and composer Jörg Widmann has been the new artistic director since 2026. Behind-the-scenes reportBreaks of breath that emerge from silence. A whole acoustic world born from nothing. Jörg Widmann draws tenuous and fragile sounds from his clarinet, comparable to a deaf breath. He plays über by Mar…