The Time is Open

Within the space of music history, we are at a point where composers are celebrating freedom. Everything is allowed, any style, ‘time is open’. Joey Roukens looks at the present through the prism of a few early songs by Mahler. In the opening of Archipel VI, Daan Manneke, ‘composer of space’, reflects on the loss of individuality, loneliness and disappearance and uses an archipelago as a metaphor. Ig Henneman uncompromisingly follows the call of her imagination in a completely idiosyncratic language, unruly and rebellious. Karmit Fadael takes the mysterious dreamtime of the night as a guideline: in her text by Edgar Allan Poe, the moon and pole star represent two lovers: the moon faithful and cool, the star fiery and illegitimate.

The program is part of the music festival Muze van Zuid, 11-15 September.

Program:

Daan Manneke 1939* – De tijd staat open (Gerrit Kouwenaar) (2001)

Joey Roukens 1982* – Drei Herbstlieder (2016)

Zwei Heine-Lieder (2022)

Karmit Fadael 1996* – Versifier (E.A. Poe) (2021)

Ig Henneman 1945* – Hinter der Wand (1994)

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