In ‘Story of a Lifetime’; the Radiokoor performs the soundtrack to the life story of a very ordinary woman – you, or I, or the woman in the street. She gives us the gift of her life in images and music, and memories that slip past us.

The soundtrack includes contemporary a capella works, arrangements of pop music and French chansons alongside each other. The Passing of the Year by Jonathan Dove is the golden thread through the evening, a musical metaphor for life, which passes by irrevocably.

Between the works, Stef Van Alsenoy's surround soundscapes provide fragments and memories that support the story.


A woman muses as she looks back on her life. She strings together her recollections, from the many ordinary but unforgettable moments through major achievements and bitter failures, to the first still burning love transformed into familiar closeness – and to the end: bidding farewell.

She gives us the gift of her life in images and music, and memories that slip past us. The party where she meets her partner, the fresh love that gradually turns into the ordinary but cherished moments they share, the minutiae and disappointments in each other, the dissipation of passion and the final farewell. Unremarkable and banal – but also very special: for it is her story, and is thus unique.

Soprano Kelly Poukens brings the woman to life, as a flesh and blood person filled with emotion: in the intimate chansons, accompanied by just a piano or guitar, she becomes the woman who thinks back on her life with her beloved, and so recounts her Story of a Lifetime.

programme

John Cage Living Room Music: II. Story
Louis Andriessen Un beau baiser
Brad Mehldau We Met At The End Of The Party
Sven-David Sandström Four Songs of Love
Nils Lindberg O Mistress Mine: Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer’s Day?
Jonathan Dove The Passing of the Year
Graham Nash Our House
Barbara Pierre
Eric Woolfson & Alan Parsons Old and Wise
Jacques Brel La chanson des vieux amants
Léo Ferré Avec le temps

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