soundcheck 75: "On the Poetry of Names - Places of Hearsay".

Place names are bridgeheads of the imagination. Through the names of places we do not know, we are already half there. Perhaps this is especially true of the world's enchanted places, less so the great entries on the map of a world that has become smaller: Paris, Rome, Madrid, London, New York. The more past the glory of a vanished capital, the sparser the information - a mention, a tale, perhaps a poem or a picture - the greater the suggestion of the name that carries us away by its sound: Kubla Kahn's Xanadu in the Far East, which Coleridge recreated, or the El Dorado of the conquistadors in the unreachable West, whose myth weaves through the centuries. Or that former metropolis on the Silk Road, of which Edgar Allen Poe wrote: "Look around you now at Samarkand! / - Is it not the queen of the earth? / The pride of all cities? In its hand / the world's destiny?"

soundcheck 75:

Of the poetry of names
Places of hearsay

The International Ensemble Modern Academy

Scholarship holders 2018/19

Witold Lutoslawski, Slides (1988)
Claude Vivier, Samarkand (1981)
Friedrich Goldmann, Linie/Splitter for 7 players (1996)
Christopher Trapani, Half of me is Ocean, half of me is Sky (2003, rev. 2004)
Michael Gordon, The Light of the Dark (2008)

With an essay by Porf. Dr. Jan-Hendrik Witthaus

Admission:
Normal price 12,- Euro
Reduced price 7,- Euro
Reservations under: info[at]soundcheck-kassel[dot]de
The box office opens one hour before the beginning of the event.

soundcheck im Eulensaal: This is the name for extraordinary concert projects in Kassel - not only in the Eulensaal. What is played and what is thought, music and reflection are combined here in a stimulating, amusing, provocative, sometimes irritating, but never trivial way. The focus of the concerts is on contemporary music - the goal is not repertoire maintenance, but emphatic contemporaneity. This regularly includes works from the near and distant past. Part of each concert is a spoken text, which in essayistic form builds bridges to neighboring disciplines.