Repeated due to success: The Crack, the piece of music that Kris Oelbrandt wrote last year for the Dominican monastery. Oelbrandt, formerly a monk (Trappist) knows how to create music that stops you and brings you back to yourself. In The Crack this is an experience of reflection and guilt, but also of liberation and reconciliation.

That personal experience can also be applied more broadly: how do you find peace and reconciliation between groups, regions, countries, when there is war, when peoples are opposed to each other, when the freedom of one means the downfall of the other?

In the midst of these questions, The Crack wants to be a sign of hope. A modest sign of hope, because pain and division are still everywhere. The still relevant peace week (16 to 24 September) bears witness to this.

There is a crack in everything, that’s how the light gets in (Leonard Cohen)

The Crack is again performed by the Oneiros Ensemble (viola, harp, cello and flute). The music alternates with spoken meditations; powerful texts by Desmond and Mpho Tutu, based on their experiences with truth and reconciliation in South Africa.