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back to the future rainy days 2010
19.–28.11.2010
Music is a time machine. With this simple yet plausible axiom, the rainy days 2010 festival under the motto «back to the future» hurls us from the 21st to the 15th century (and back again, though perhaps with extra listening possibilities). Every visit to the past can, however, have a lasting influence on the future (especially true for composers). Musical time trips can lead us to grasp strong contrasts (like when the Arditti Quartet and the Auryn Quartett set Haydn’s The Seven Last Words alongside the new piece Bernhard Lang develops from it). Strange encounters should not be ruled out (for example, when Nicolas Hodges, Brice Pauset and Johannes Ockeghem meet up somewhere between the present and the Middle Ages close to the Art of the Fugue). Eye openers are scripted in (like when Helmut Lachenmann in the OPL concert presents the connection between Mozart’s Clarinet Concerto and his own orchestral piece Accanto). Some things that might seem futuristic immediately become clear when time travelling (as in the recital evening that embraces four centuries on Lachenmann’s 75th birthday). Of course, plenty of questions are left open (Jacques Rebotier attempts to get in touch with Ludwig van Beethoven by letter but to date no reply has been delivered). But some glances into the future are already full of promise – after all with John Oswald, Philip Jeck, Wolfgang Mitterer and DJ Spooky that Subliminal Kid some of the most seasoned musical time travellers could be won over for rainy days 2010.
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19.–28.11.2010
Music is a time machine. With this simple yet plausible axiom, the rainy days 2010 festival under the motto «back to the future» hurls us from the 21st to the 15th century (and back again, though perhaps with extra listening possibilities). Every visit to the past can, however, have a lasting influence on the future (especially true for composers). Musical time trips can lead us to grasp strong contrasts (like when the Arditti Quartet and the Auryn Quartett set Haydn’s The Seven Last Words alongside the new piece Bernhard Lang develops from it). Strange encounters should not be ruled out (for example, when Nicolas Hodges, Brice Pauset and Johannes Ockeghem meet up somewhere between the present and the Middle Ages close to the Art of the Fugue). Eye openers are scripted in (like when Helmut Lachenmann in the OPL concert presents the connection between Mozart’s Clarinet Concerto and his own orchestral piece Accanto). Some things that might seem futuristic immediately become clear when time travelling (as in the recital evening that embraces four centuries on Lachenmann’s 75th birthday). Of course, plenty of questions are left open (Jacques Rebotier attempts to get in touch with Ludwig van Beethoven by letter but to date no reply has been delivered). But some glances into the future are already full of promise – after all with John Oswald, Philip Jeck, Wolfgang Mitterer and DJ Spooky that Subliminal Kid some of the most seasoned musical time travellers could be won over for rainy days 2010.
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