Poetry Affairs

14:30/part 1

sl*p & gl*de
for seven voices, electronics & visuals (2023/24)^wp*
composition: Georgia Koumará
visuals: Flor de Fuego

Wasting my Grammar
Prisonniers des mots d’autrui
score in 10 movements for four voices (2023/24)^wp
by Cia Rinne
performance: Johanna Vargas, Susanne Leitz-Lorey, Martin Nagy,
Guillermo Anzorena

Treppenhaus
with and for Truike van der Poel and Daniel Gloger (2024)^wp*
composition, text, scenography, choreography, sound design, electronics: Gemma Ragués Pujol
performance, choreography and vocal assistance: Truike van der Poel and Daniel Gloger
Audio Mix: Samuel Gfeller

Bears Nudging at Pleasures in the Dark
A vocal cycle (2022–24)
I. Elephant
for voice and electronics
text: Deryn Rees-Jones
composition and performance: Bnaya Halperin-Kaddari
performance: Andreas Fischer

17:30/part 2

Bears Nudging at Pleasures in the Dark
A vocal cycle (2022–24)
III. Consider the Lilies
for five voices (2023)^wp*
text: Deryn Rees-Jones
composition: Bnaya Halperin-Kaddari

Darkness
staged recital (2024)^wp
poetry, concept and performance: Vera Burlak
concept and performance: Truike van der Poel und Andreas Fischer

Continuums
song cycle by Dariya Maminova
for seven voices (2023)^wp*
with texts by Cia Rinne, Maria Barnas, Luljeta Lleshanaku, Vera Burlak and Deryn Rees-Jones

18:45/part 3

ARE YOU AVOIDING THE HORSES AGAIN
A life in several panic attacks
a piece for 3 voices (2023/24)^wp
byMaria Barnas
and a fragment of a poem by Rose Ausländer
Sag Nicht Gute Nacht

sound: Georgia Koumará
voices: Johanna Vargas, Truike van der Poel, Susanne Leitz-Lorey

Severin Dornier: An[other] Alpine Symphony
based on texts by Leta Semadeni and music by Richard Strauss (2023/24)^wp*

Neue Vocalsolisten
Johanna Vargas, soprano/Susanne Leitz-Lorey, soprano/Truike van der Poel, mezzo soprano/Daniel Gloger, counter tenor/Martin Nagy, tenor/Guillermo Anzorena, baritone/Andreas Fischer, bass

^{All commissions by Musik der Jahrhunderte.
*The composition commissions were financed by the Ernst von Siemens Musikstiftung}

For Poetry Affairs, five poets and five composers from ten different European countries joined forces to explore the multifaceted relationships between language and music. Eight major performances between concert, installation and music theater were created from the most diverse perspectives of poetry and composition. In two large parts of the event, new constellations emerge from the almost homely closeness of the audience to the performers to the far distance: images and scenes full of rhetorical finesse, powerful, shocking, irritating, sublime poetry, labyrinths of linguistic and musical permutations and subtle shifts in meaning. They lead us into different states of being, describe the aesthetics of error, a life in seven panic attacks, a bizarre odyssey in search of the perfect word or a swan song to the Alpine glaciers.

^{broadcast in SWR2 JetztMusik: March 7, 2024, 21:05}