Total Immersion: Music For The End Of Time
Total Immersion: Music For The End Of Time Calendar
By Day
Sun 23 Jan 2022
- 10:30Barbican, London
The Â鶹ÊÓƵAV Symphony Orchestra’s Total Immersion in music written in the prisons and ghettos of the Second World War opens with a film in testament to acts of creativity from the musicians of TerezÃn.
- 13:30Barbican, London
Musical testaments by Hans Krása and Pavel Haas written inside Theresienstadt, and a compelling symphony by Schulhoff that warns of impending human catastrophe.
Musical testaments by Hans Krása and Pavel Haas written inside Theresienstadt, and a compelling symphony by Schulhoff that warns of impending human catastrophe.
Programme
- Overture for Small Orchestra
- Studyfor string orchestra
- Symphony no. 5, WV 125
Performers
- Alpesh Chauhanconductor
Composers
- 15:30Barbican, London
The Â鶹ÊÓƵAV Singers offer haunting choral music from the Theresienstadt ghetto, with reflective interludes provided by students of the Guildhall School of Music and Drama.
- 18:30Barbican, London
Discover the political, satirical opera that dared to hope for a better world, even as its composer suffered in the Theresienstadt ghetto.
- 19:45Barbican, London
Extraordinary music written amid the hopelessness of prison and concentration camps that dared to seek the truth – and to hope for better times.
Extraordinary music written amid the hopelessness of prison and concentration camps that dared to seek the truth – and to hope for better times.
Programme
- Der Kaiser von Atlantis
- Quartet for the End of Time
Performers
- Thomas Johannes MeyerKaiser Overall
- Derrick BallardDer Lautsprecher (loudspeaker)
- Oliver JohnstonEin Soldat (a soldier)
- Benjamin HulettHarlekin (Pierrot)
- Soraya MafiBubikopf (a maiden)
- Henry WaddingtonDer Tod (Death)
- Hanna HippDer Trommler (drummer girl)
- Kenneth Richardsondirector (Ullmann)
- Sarah Playfaircasting consultant (Ullmann)
- Josep Ponsconductor (Ullmann)
- Guildhall School Musiciansensemble (Messiaen)
Composers
