soundcheck 75: "On the poetry of names - places of hearsay"

Place names are bridgeheads of the imagination. Through the names of places we do not know, we are already halfway there. Perhaps this is especially true for the remote places of the world, rather than the large entries on the map of a world that has become smaller: Paris, Rome, Madrid, London, New York. The more bygone the fame of a lost capital, the sparser the information - a mention, a story, perhaps a poem or a picture - the greater the suggestion of the name, which carries us away with its sound: Kubla Kahn's Xanadu in the Far East, which Coleridge recreated, or the Eldorado of the conquistadors in the unreachable West, whose myth has been woven through the centuries. Or the former metropolis on the Silk Road, of which Edgar Allen Poe wrote: "Look around you now at Samarkand! / Is it not the queen of the earth / The pride of all cities? In its hands / the fate of the world?"

soundcheck 75:

On the poetry of names
Places of hearsay

The International Ensemble Modern Academy

Scholarship holders 2018/19

Witold Lutoslawski, Slides (1988)
Claude Vivier, Samarkand (1981)
Friedrich Goldmann, Linie/Splitter for 7 players (1996)
Christopher Trapani, Half of me is Ocean, half of me is Sky (2003, rev. 2004)
Michael Gordon, The Light of the Dark (2008)

With an essay by Porf. Dr. Jan-Hendrik Witthaus

Admission:
Normal price 12,- Euro
Reduced price 7,- Euro
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The box office opens one hour before the start of the event

soundcheck im Eulensaal: This is the name for extraordinary concert projects in Kassel - and not just in the Eulensaal. Played and thought, music and reflection are combined here in a stimulating, amusing, provocative, sometimes irritating, but never trivial way. The focus of the concerts is on contemporary music - the aim is not to cultivate the repertoire, but to be emphatically contemporary. This regularly includes works from the near and distant past. Each concert includes a spoken text that builds bridges to neighboring disciplines in essayistic form.