Musical Advent calendar

If you love sweets, nostalgic pictures or other little surprises, you have to be quite disciplined not to open all the little doors, drawers or bags on the first day. This temptation is largely spared with musical Advent calendars, as the doors are usually only opened on the corresponding day. You can browse through at least part of one Advent calendar in advance: It is already known in which hotels Maja Weber will be performing live with the Stradivari Quartet and musician friends from December 1 to 24. During these performances, the hotels and their management as well as the musicians will be introduced. This will be followed by a 20 to 30-minute concert. The events can be viewed live or virtually via http://majaweber.com be visited.

A quick internet search has shown that many other institutions also offer musical advent calendars, for example:

- Johanneskirche Zurich with 20-minute concerts over lunchtime: https://www.kirche-industrie.ch/www.zh.ref.ch/gemeinden/industrie/content/e1665/e2454/2021_12_advent_online_neu.pdf

- the Stadtkirche Aarau with half-hour concerts, which are also streamed and broadcast on the radio: https://weloveaarau.ch/agenda/klingender-adventskalender

- the Zurich Opera House with small concerts at 17.30: https://www.opernhaus.ch/home/extra/musikalischer-adventskalender

- Andrew Bond with short participatory singing films: https://andrewbond.ch/adventskalender

- the Bern University of the Arts, which is L'heure bleu will be showing artistic contributions from December 1 to 31 to give the "cultural ban a face": https://www.hkb.bfh.ch/de/aktuell/heureblue

- the Tonhalle Orchestra Zurich, which is giving away 24 musical surprises: https://www.tonhalle.ch/news/adventskalender

- The Basel Symphony Orchestra is hiding a question that needs to be answered behind every door of its digital Advent calendar from December 1: https://www.sinfonieorchesterbasel.ch

- or the Orchestra della Svizzera italiana and the Barocchisti, in co-production with RSI Rete due: https://www.osi.swiss/avvento

Most music schools will not be able to hold their events as usual during the Christmas period this year. Many are compensating with digital Advent calendars. Some web links are listed here (no claim to completeness - please send late registrations to: contact@musikzeitung.ch):
 

https://www.musikschule-andelfingen.ch
https://www.musikschule-arbon.ch/adventskalender
https://www.schulen-birsfelden.ch/musikschule/adventskalender
https://tuerchen.com/musikschule_brunnen_schwyz
https://www.musikschule-dietikon.ch/adventskalender
https://www.musikschuleduebendorf.ch/adventskalender.htm
http://www.schuleherisau.ch/de/musikschule
https://www.musikschulekuesnacht.ch/news?conn=news-public&new_id=72&event=view
https://www.musikschuleluzern.ch/videos
https://www.musikschule-steinen-lauerz.ch/adventskalender
https://www.musikschule-wildberg.de/advents-kalender/adventskalender

And finally, an example from school music:
https://www.sekbinningen.ch/musikalischer-adventskalender-bald-gehts-los