Since the Tower of Babel, there has been a confusion of languages. People have to make an effort to understand each other. There seems to be hardly any common ground between Colombian and Jewish culture, for example. But there are indications that these two cultures are closer than one might think at first glance.

First of all, there is the rhythm - the Latin American triplet - that appears in the songs of both cultures. But there are also connections in economic developments, culinary aspects and aspects of joie de vivre. And - last but not least - there is Max Loeb García, in whose work both Jewish and Colombian music play a special role. In the compositions created especially for this program, he brings together the spirited melancholy and the liveliness of Jewish and Colombian cultures in music. His sparkling fusions are flanked by absolutely sound reasoning that, while not always meeting scientific standards, reveals astonishing things about the common ground between the two cultures. The thread of the argument sometimes gets tangled up in its own comical nature. In Saxony, this is sometimes referred to as babeln. But where the mind sees insurmountable boundaries, music sometimes naturally finds wonderful connections.