| Event Name: | sorensen, nono, haas - Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival |
| Description: | Bent Sørensen and Anna Berit Asp Christensen Saudades Inocentes UK Premiere
Georg Friedrich Haas Schweigen (Movement I and II) UK Premiere
Luigi Nono ¿Dónde Estás Hermano?
Luigi Nono La fabbrica illuminata
Gert Henning-Jensen tenor
Oscar Henning-Jensen boy soprano
Guido Paevatalu baritone
Frederik Munk Larsen guitar
Andreas Borregaard accordion
Neue Vocalsolisten Stuttgart
The title Saudades Inocentes is probably best translated to mean ‘Innocent Yearnings', but the Portuguese word ‘Saudade' indicates something far stronger than a ‘common' longing after something or someone. It is often a desperate longing after that which cannot be reached, either because it is not to be found or because it has been lost forever. The work is written for three male voices - boy, young man and older man. From a landscape of loudspeakers, a feminine universe of women's voices and steps flows as a mist beneath and around these three. Through the work's six movements all the voices - the boy, the little girl, women and men - sing against and with one another.
Music by Georg Friedrich Haas and Luigi Nono forms a haunting complement to Saudades Inocentes. Luigi Nono's ¿Dónde Estás Hermano? (Brother Where Art Thou?) for two soprani, mezzo-soprano, and contralto was written in 1982 in honour of the disappeared in Argentina and the Madres de la Plaza de Mayo movement. La fabbrica illuminata (The Illuminated Factory), for voice and magnetic tape, is a commentary on social injustice and contains fragmented political chants accompanied by steel-on-steel sounds of machinery. Two movements from Georg Friedrich Haas' Schweigen complete the programme - the first of which, a response to current world issues, is about the Fukushima nuclear disaster in Japan.
Produced by hcmf supported by The Danish Arts Council, The Danish Arts Foundation, Danish Composers Society's Production Pool / KODA's Fund for Social and Cultural Purposes, SNYK and Goethe Institut
Saudades Inocentes is commissioned and produced by hcmf and SPOR festival
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| Type of Event: | Music Events - Concerts - Bands - Gigs |
| Event Agenda: | The UK’s largest festival of new and experimental music is winner of the UK’s most prestigious award for live classical music. In 2010 hcmf was recognised by the Royal Philharmonic Society Awards judges as ‘... a shining example of global ambition’.
The hcmf presents a programme of world class events including concerts, installations, multi-media presentations, exhibitions, workshops, talks and films.
Several German ensembles have been invited again this year.
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| Event Location: | St. Pauls Hall |
| Event City: | Huddersfield |
| Type of Venue: | Cityhall - Townhall |
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| Event Start Date | 27-Nov-11 |