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Rainydays Festival 2009
«Fjogbdi hfojbm! Ebt Lmjtdiff, ebtt npefsof Nvtjl botusfohfoe jtu, jtu fjoefvujh xjefsmfhu.» That is what d'Wort enthusiastically wrote of the «rainy days» festival in 2008. Stop! Please replace every letter with its left neighbour in the alphabet. And already you’re in the middle of the theme of the 2009 «rainy days»: mysterious communications, objects found by chance, more or less understandable messages – those are some of the exciting new music discoveries that await visitors to the festival in Luxembourg’s rainy late autumn days. Not to worry – music is sometimes easier to understand than text or language (see above). Felix Mendelssohn was sure about that: «Usually, people complain that music has so many different meanings; it is so uncertain what they should make of it, whereas everyone understands words. But for me, it’s the exact opposite.» You, too, can understand the Messages by György Kurtág, Franz Kafka/ Roman Haubenstock-Ramati, Edgar Allan Poe/ Claude Lenners, and Jacques Rebotier/Ernst Herbeck, which are, in fact, extremely communicative. Come and discover new music as «the true message in a bottle» (Theodor W. Adorno) in mysterious chamber music concerts. During the festival’s opening, walk through the city on a hunt for hidden music treasures. And don’t miss the spectacular multimedia premières of Hèctor Parra and the star physicist Lisa Randall, of Pascal Schumacher (this time as composer rather than as jazz musician), and of Gast Bouschet/Nadine Hilbert (in cooperation with the Luxembourg Pavilion of the Venice Biennale).
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«Fjogbdi hfojbm! Ebt Lmjtdiff, ebtt npefsof Nvtjl botusfohfoe jtu, jtu fjoefvujh xjefsmfhu.» That is what d'Wort enthusiastically wrote of the «rainy days» festival in 2008. Stop! Please replace every letter with its left neighbour in the alphabet. And already you’re in the middle of the theme of the 2009 «rainy days»: mysterious communications, objects found by chance, more or less understandable messages – those are some of the exciting new music discoveries that await visitors to the festival in Luxembourg’s rainy late autumn days. Not to worry – music is sometimes easier to understand than text or language (see above). Felix Mendelssohn was sure about that: «Usually, people complain that music has so many different meanings; it is so uncertain what they should make of it, whereas everyone understands words. But for me, it’s the exact opposite.» You, too, can understand the Messages by György Kurtág, Franz Kafka/ Roman Haubenstock-Ramati, Edgar Allan Poe/ Claude Lenners, and Jacques Rebotier/Ernst Herbeck, which are, in fact, extremely communicative. Come and discover new music as «the true message in a bottle» (Theodor W. Adorno) in mysterious chamber music concerts. During the festival’s opening, walk through the city on a hunt for hidden music treasures. And don’t miss the spectacular multimedia premières of Hèctor Parra and the star physicist Lisa Randall, of Pascal Schumacher (this time as composer rather than as jazz musician), and of Gast Bouschet/Nadine Hilbert (in cooperation with the Luxembourg Pavilion of the Venice Biennale).
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