Nothing

Tuesday, 6. September 2011
Concert No. 9, Grand Hall of the Slovene National Theatre (SNG Maribor) at 19:30

Festival Maribor Orchestra
Richard Tognetti – conductor, lead violin

The Croatian Radio Television Choir
Luka Vukšić - conductor
Tonči Bilić - artistic director of the choir

Featuring
Barry Humphries - narrator
Aleksandra Zamojska – soprano
Barbara Jernejčič Fürst - alto
Marino Formenti - piano
Tomaž Sevšek - organ, piano, harpshichord
Matjaž Drevenšek - saxophone
Matej Grahek - flute
Jurij Hladnik - clarinet
Stanko Arnold - trumpet
Barbara Kresnik - percussion

Rene Maurin - director

Images and video installation created by – Jon Frank
Video - Allcomb d.o.o.
Light design - SNG Maribor
Sound design - Danilo Ženko
Video artist - Louis Thorn

Program to include

1. William Walton: Façade: V. Jodelling Song
2. Richard Tognetti: Sometimes you wait
    Intro:  O. Messiaen: Quartet for the End of Time (excerpt)
3. Aphex Twin: Gwely Mernans – CIRCLES
4.  John Cage: Sonata No. 5 (Sonatas & Interludes for Prepared Piano), (1946-48)
5. Giacinto Scelsi: »Anâgâmin« (1965)
6. Morton Feldman: Rothko Chapel for soprano, alto, mixed choir and instruments (1971) (2nd movement)
7. Aphex Twin: Kladfvgbung Micshk, Tokyo Shop
8. Morton Feldman: Rothko Chapel for soprano, alto, mixed choir and instruments (1971) (3rd movement)
9. John Cage: 4:33 (1952)
10. Morton Feldman: Rothko Chapel for soprano, alto, mixed choir and instruments (1971) (4th movement)
11. Arvo Pärt: Sarah Was Ninety Years Old
12. BONO Quicktime
13. Something I Can Never Have Trent Reznor the Natural Born Killers' version
14. Isopropanol
15. Richard Tognetti: Bells      Trad. Icelandic (arr. Stearne): Fagurt er í Fjörðum
16. Georg Friedrich Händel: Cleopatra "Piangero la sorte mia" (from "Giulio Cesare")
17. Morton Feldman: Rothko Chapel for soprano, alto, mixed choir and instruments (1971) (5th movement)
18. Ludvig van Beethoven: "Ah! Perfido", Op. 65 Scene for Soprano and Orchestra " (1796)
19. William Walton: Façade: IX. Polka

Concert Bill

Questions about and around Nothing, which troubled the greatest philosophers as well as artists for centuries, packed in a concert program, which despite its name brings A LOT.

It brings the music by Beethoven, Cage, Pärt, Händel, Walton, Feldman, Scelsi and Tognetti, it brings the visual art of Jon Frank, it brings the words of Barry Humphries, the Festival Maribor Orchestra and Marko Letonja. It brings the Croatian Radio Television Choir and the soprano Aleksandra Zamojska. It brings drums, organs and bells. 

Tognetti plays with the idea, to what extend music enables us to recognise the constant presence and at the same time the absolute absence of the Nothing and really sense it for what it is.