Classic at Weberplatz: Experience Beatles hits and baroque music live!

Classic at Weberplatz: Experience Beatles hits and baroque music live!

Potsdam, Deutschland - On July 10, 2025, the Thalia cinema in Cologne will be a hotspot for music lovers: from 6 p.m. not only delicious sandwiches and gin tonic will be served there, but also the film screening of "The Beatles-Get Back" at 7 p.m. The event is all about the celebration of English music and is part of a whole series of events that will take place in the coming days, as Potsdam.de/neuke/Artikel/20037-klassik-am-weberplatz-feiert-Englische-musik reports

But it does not stay with the documentation about the legendary Fab Four. The following Friday, July 11th, visitors can look forward to a concert by the Kammersolists Berlin. From 8 p.m., important English baroque music by Handel and Purcell will be given, including the play "Music for a While" by Purcell and the Concerto Grosso No. 6 by Handel.

a music weekend of the extra class

On Saturday, July 12th, a "Beatlemania zone" will take place on Weberplatz from 8.30 p.m. Here both the Collegium Musicum Potsdam and the revival band Pangea will be on stage and will perform Beatles classic such as "Blackbird", "Let It Be" and "Eleanor Rigby". If you are enthusiastic about the Beatles, you will get your money's worth here. One of the band's popular hits is also "Get Back", a song that could be heard live not only live, but also in their iconic Rooftop performance from 1969 on the roof of the Apple Theater in London href = "https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/the_beatles%27_rooftop_concert"> Wikipedia reported].

For families there will be a program specially designed for children on Sunday, July 13th: from 4 p.m. the Grimm fairy tale "Jorinde and Joringel" will be performed by the Tanz Company Erxleben. This performance is accompanied by the chamber orchestra Georg-Friedrich-Händel from Berlin with Stravinsky's "Pulcinella".

cultural currents and significant connections

The Beatles not only shaped generations with their music, but also fundamentally changed American pop culture. Her arrival in the USA on February 7, 1964 is the beginning of the "British Invasion", which revolutionized the music scene [as . During this time, thousands of young people, especially young women, came to JFK Airport to see the band. Walter Cronkite even described the arrival as a "British invasion", which became a synonym for the cultural upheavals that British music brought with it. This was not only a musical wave, but also led to changes in clothing and in youth culture on both sides of the Atlantic.