Event Chur
Song recital with works by Schoeck and Bauer
afterimages.
Description
Othmar Schoeck's song cycle Nachhall, Op. 70 meets Michael Emanuel Bauer's
afterimages. Reverberation is Schoeck's last major work, composed in 1954 and
premiered in 1955 at the Tonhalle Zurich in the original version for voice
and orchestra. In this cycle, Schoeck processed premonitions of death, amazement
about the pull of the past and the extinction of the trace of every life.
Bauer continues Schoeck's cycle in his composition, which was composed in 2022; one
Continuation which, in the sense of the word "reverberation", is a rehearsal, a reverberation
. Kaleidoscopic and compressed are splinters from Othmar
Schoeck's music and biography (including his flirtation with the National Socialist
System and the Reactions in Switzerland). In loop and
Repeat structures afterimages becomes a microscope for a brief moment,
that magnifies and reveals moments that are not perceived in this way
Would.
In this way, Bauer's work not only establishes a variety of artistic points of reference
Schoeck, but also songs by Franz Schubert, shoegazing from the 1990s,
saxophone solos by Charlie Parker, the Art Brut of Adolf Wölfli and films with
and about Marilyn Monroe.
Veranstaltungsort
Postremise
43 Engadinstrasse, 7000 Chur
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