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Chamber Music 10 april to 15 mei 2009
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If James Joyce had not become a writer, he would undoubtedly have made a career as a tenor. Apart from being the author of literary masterpieces like Ulysses and Finnegans Wake , James Joyce was an excellent singer and a promising pianist. It is therefore not surprising that the poems in Chamber Music (1907) are often interpreted as lyrics.
Chamber Music is an intimate, stylized music theatre performance. Kaat Hellings turned James Joyce's poems into songs. Together with Ton van der Meer she composed music for them. The result: thirty-six modern compositions singing the praise of love as passionately and touchingly as Joyce did in his poems a hundred years ago. Do not expect a conventional chamber music concert, but a trio, consisting of Kaat Hellings, Ton van der Meer and Bastiaan Woltjer, who realizes the intimacy of a chamber concert, using acoustic and electronic instruments (trombone, spinet, chimes and more).
Chamber Music is a joint production with Theater Antigone (B).
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