Reading list: Beyond Silence

Silence is to a composer what a blank canvas is to a painter, or a blank sheet of paper to a poet. A tabula rasa. In the concert *Beyond Silence*, we encounter two composers: Giya Kancheli, the Georgian master of melancholy and tranquillity, and Arvo Pärt, the Estonian composer of spiritual simplicity and intense silence.

Jan Dertaelen, bookseller and literary figurehead at De Groene Waterman in Antwerp, has put together a reading list for the concert. For those who dare to fall silent. To listen. And to read.

& #x1f449; with thanks to Confituur Boekhandels. Confituur is the colourful alliance of independent bookshops (more about Confituur Boekhandels)