Star oboist Albrecht Mayer: "We are destroying our unique culture"

WORLD:

If at some point everything starts again, the sound will be there again immediately.

Is it like riding a bike that you can do again right away when you're in the saddle?

Albrecht Mayer: At first, the

problem isn't so much the sound itself.

But our self-confidence, the security, the trust in our abilities.

Getting that back can be extremely difficult - we haven't seen some colleagues for months - especially if you've played for a long time without an audience and only for the microphone and for the camera.

For orchestras that have barely played together for more than a year, the lockdown is devastating.

WORLD:

What do you fear, at the end of the Corona crisis, the balance sheet for culture will be?

What will be lost?