Blog

In the short articles of our blog, various authors reflect the activities in the Musikdorf Ernen.

The «Newcomers» program: Ernen welcomes the winners!

The motto of the 2018 Musikdorf Ernen’s festival, «On the move», is one that refers both to the individual concert program offer, and to the profile of the festival itself. Artisti...

One’s political zeal, another’s lavish table: The Jost-Sigristen House Museum

One day last week, the Head of the Ernen Tourist Office, Irene Clausen, kindly took me on a special tour of the handsome Jost-Sigristen House Museum, a house that proudly stands sm...

An interview with architect Pascal Abgottspon

An interview with architect Pascal Abgottspon, site manager for the restoration of the St. Georg parish church in Ernen

Renovating the old St. Georg, landmark of the village, wa...

SMArt: Between culture and sustainable development

What better way to see and connect with the work of one fine photographer than to visit it with another? Here in Ernen, select images by the Mongolian photographer Tamir Bayarsaikh...

«Meer sollte er heissen»

Mit Chorwerken aus verschiedenen Epochen eröffnete der SOLAND Chor die Reihe «Kammermusik plus» hier im Musikdorf Ernen.

«Nicht Bach, sondern Meer sollte er heissen», urteilte B...

Eternal spheres, sublime cello: The first of the Festival’s choirs

Contemporary as well as classical compositions belong to the repertoire of the fine SOLAND choir. Its members confidently venture into the modern genre as readily as they tackle th...

Unique grape varieties, a distinctive USP: Chanton wines

Lucky for us, it’s all in the family. Back in 1944, Oskar Chanton launched a wine enterprise in the community of nearby Visp that would specialize in wines indigenous to that hardy...

Prison, rack, stake, or gallows: The Zendenrathaus and witch hunts in Ernen

The Zendenrathaus in Ernen is an imposing, solitary three-story building on the east side of the so called “Hengert,” which roughly translates to “village square.” There’s an uncan...

Food for the soul: A proliferation of flowers

One has to marvel at the lush garden plots that seem to dot much of the landscape between here in Ernen and the neighboring village of Mühlebach. In them, the visitor will see vege...

A treasure in Niederernen, and insights from Binn

«Pray to St. Anthony!» Not being Catholic myself, it was thanks to dear Mrs. Simonato, the Italian woman who helped us with the children when I went back to work, that I knew the a...

The best of Baroque and Beaumont

Tuesday evening marked the fourth of this year’s Baroque concert series, one traditionally performed in front of the magnificent high altar (1758-61) of Ernen’s parish church of St...

From the gorge to the gallows: a casual ramble

Anyone who returns to Ernen year after year invariably notices that in the town’s infrastructure is forever being improved, that the area’s cultural and historical highlights are i...

A Dance Film and Jazz Sound Join Forces

As much a joint venture as it was pioneer project, a dance film and jazz concert recently celebrated its world première for the large audience in the Ernen town hall. It tapped the...

Quand on dit que la musique adoucit les mœurs…

Aujourd’hui, la programmation musicale des orchestres et des festivals est surtout dictée par les conventions et par les impératifs financiers. À l’affiche, on trouve, à côté du no...

„It’s more complicated than that!“

Literaturseminar im Festival Musikdorf Ernen: Viel mehr als die Summe seiner Teile!

Donna Leon und Judith Flanders halten seit mehreren Jahren gemeinsam einen Literaturkurs als ...

Sally Beamish: Composer, Violist, and Mistress of Multitasking

Watch Sally Beamish''s work "Hill Stanzas", recorded 2017 in Ernen

CD's with works by Sally Beamish are available in our CD shop ("Impressionen" 2015 and 2018)

One of Musikdorf Erne...

The Sepp Blatter Foundation awards a substantial prize

The Sepp Blatter Foundation recently awarded a sum of CHF 25,000 to the Musikfdorf Ernen in acknowledgement of its efforts, achievements, and the enormously positive resonance of i...

Alasdair Beatson – der Virtuose am Flügel

Er kommt aus Schottland, meinem Lieblingsland. Sein leicht gekräuseltes hellbraunes Haar ist ganz leicht nach vorne ins Gesicht gekämmt – so schien es mir – wie bei Komponisten ode...

Chef Klaus Leuenberger: The Same Kind of Cooking, but Better

Klaus Leuenberger, formerly chef at the Restaurant St Georg on the Dorfplatz, has taken over the helm at the ErnerGarten in the village’s all-new Generationshaus. I asked him to sh...

The Whispering of Wood − Ernen’s Precious Legacy

Wood, if you stop to think of it, has been man’s best friend in the world. It held him in his cradle, went to war as the gunstock in his hand, was the frame of the bed he came to r...