Program

PART I: FÜR EINE BESTIMMTE

Isabella Gellis – What Shall We Do (2023)

Henryk Górecki – Kleines Requiem für eine Polka, op. 66 (1993) “Małe requiem dla pewnej polki”

I. Tranquillo — Dolce, sereno — Largo

PART II: KLEINES REQUIEM

Henryk Górecki – Kleines Requiem für eine Polka, op. 66

II. Allegro impetuoso, marcatissimo — Sempre più lento, più largamente — Adagio molto

III. Allegro, deciso assai

IV. Adagio, cantabile — Quasi cadenza — Largo

PART III: VERGESSEN UND ERINNERN

Claude Debussy – L'apres-midi d'un faune (orch. Farrington)

Yannis Kyriakides – Mnemonist S. (2007, kleinere Fassung)

With further works by Nina Šenk, Igor Stravinsky, Dominic Coles, and The Caretaker.

MEMORY SPACES / MEMORY SYSTEMS

From mnemonics to monuments, we create and utilize complex systems for the act of remembrance. Yet memory itself is not a static thing — memory shape-shifts over time, as do we.

As we become increasingly reliant upon digital devices to supplement our own memory capacity, studies point to a societal shift in our memory usage through cognitive offloading. Technology also reforms how we develop autobiographical narratives, and thus how we situate and understand ourselves in the world.

Music, too, has long served as a container for memories, through the requiem, the tombeau, quotations, repetitions, calls-and-responses.

This program asks: how do spaces and systems that we use to remember serve us? How do they fail us?

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