Winter Music – Tragedy Summer Time Version

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Tragedy shows people as they are, their urges become visible. The tragedy in tragedy is the inescapability of fate, from which no one can escape, because that is precisely the tragedy of running towards the inevitable – knowingly or unknowingly – and not being able to do otherwise. But tragedy requires more than reality, more than real life. It needs an audience so that it can develop as art, and listeners who will receive and evaluate this art in the element of catharsis.

In the program curated by Annesley Black and Samir Odeh-Tamimi of works by members of the Academy of Arts, staged and performed by the Zafraan Ensemble, the theme of Greek tragedy is shown (in-)directly and in many ways – as the fate of individual sound events, as Inevitability of the disappearance of a sound in silence, as an archaeological exploration, as a reference to tragic political or social events or as an expression of a time of great spiritual crisis or a passionate outburst of anger. The ancient tragedy is timeless and present, and the question remains: How do people act when they can no longer find a way out?

The curatorial starting point for this program is Vinko Globokar’s La Prison, in which the composer does not allow the eight instrumentalists to play a “normal” note. The ancient tragedy is timeless and present, and the question remains: How do people act when they no longer see a way out?
program

Nicolaus A. Huber: From Pain and Mourning (1982)

Cornelius Schwehr: 1/3 As with bow and lyre for flute, oboe, clarinet (1996)

Helmut Zapf: David and Goliath for accordion solo (2011)

Cornelius Schwehr: 2/3 As with bow and lyre for flute, oboe, clarinet (1996)

Vinko Globokar: La Prison for eight instruments (2001)

Cornelius Schwehr: 3/3 As with bow and lyre for flute, oboe, clarinet (1996)

Steffen Schleiermacher: Heracles – 1st approach to Heiner Müller for piano (2000)

Rolf Riehm: Tone for Tone (White Streets of Babylon) for double bass clarinet (2007)