Claire-Mélanie Sinnhuber Chahut (world premiere, commissioned by Ars Musica)
Anna Thorvaldsdottir Streaming Arhythmia
Morton Feldman Rothko Chapel
(solo: Evi Roelants, soprano - María Gil Muñoz, alto - Mihai Cocea, viola - Anastasia Goldberg, celesta - Tom De Cock, percussion)
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A meditative concert around the perception of time and provoking a sense of temporal disorientation. The concert ends with the unique vision of Morton Feldman, as expressed in one of his most illuminating works, Rothko Chapel.
in collaboration with Ars Musica
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this concert was livestreamed on November 6 2020 at Flagey
in collaboration with Evil Penguin TV
with the support of the Belgian Tax Shelter
At the opening of the Rothko Chapel, Feldman received a request to compose an homage to his friend Mark Rothko – who had died in the meantime. Visual artists like Rothko had a major impact on Feldman: he wrote music as if he were filling up a canvas. Rather than composing, he assembled.
Feldman’s sound in born and ebbs away again, and flows along unobstructed – now and then interrupted by echoing silences. And so Feldman, like Rothko and his paintings, draws the viewer into his world.
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