The new muïetic programme
To Be Free - a dialogue in seven scenes -
will soon be premiered in Riga, Latvia, namely on the 9th November at 6:30 pm at Reformatu Church. This programme was commissioned by the ARENA Festival of Contemporary Music in Latvia.
A preview performance will take place in Stuttgart, Germany, on 22nd October at 7 pm in the chamber music hall of the Tempelgesellschaft.
The programme features a few world premieres, mainly of pieces inspired by poetry of pianist and author Heloïse Ph. Palmer.
These world premieres will be:
Quasi-Haiku (after a poem by HP Palmer) by Jacqueline Fontyn
Solitude's Stark Wilderness (after a poem by HP Palmer) by Elainie Lillios
In Love with Liberty (after a fable by HP Palmer) by Santa Ratniece
woanders (after a poem by HP Palmer) by John Palmer
3 pieces of this one for Joan by Vic Hoyland
pre-ludere (variation on a prelude by Hans Martin von Katte) by Heloïse Ph. Palmer
The programme also features music by
Gesualdo di Venosa, Franz Liszt, Ethel Smyth, Akin Euba, Arnold Schönberg and Giovanni Gabrieli
as well as poetry and prose by Heloïse Ph. Palmer
as well as poetry and prose by Heloïse Ph. Palmer
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