Dark was the Night
The piece Dark was the Night is the third part of the projects in lightless space by director Sabrina Hölzer. In absolute darkness, she playfully devotes herself to the reciprocal influence of seeing and hearing under the label Into the Dark, which she founded in 2011, together with Solistenensemble Kaleidoskop and the Berlin-based noise maker Max Bauer.
The players, acting in the dark, catapult the listeners into a wide variety of musical spaces. These lead from Hindemith's Overture to the Flying Dutchman, as played by a bad spa band at the fountain at 7 a.m., to Pression by Helmut Lachenmann and quartets by Haydn and Britten, to the anticipation of the arrival of an angel in Sánchez-Verdú's Concerto Grosso for noisemakers and angel strings. With arrangements of Romantic bestsellers such as The Battle of the Montagues and Capulets from Sergei Prokofiev's Romeo and Juliet ballet suite, the program moves on to space compositions by Michael Rauter and arrangements of Hungarian folk dances.
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A project of Sabrina Hölzer with the Solistenensemble Kaleidoskop and the foley artist Max Bauer. A production of Into the Dark in cooperation with the Zeitgenössische Oper Berlin und Matvik Crew Forening Oslo. Funded by the German Federal Cultural Foundation, The Governing Mayor – senate chancellery – cultural affairs and Norsk Kulturrad.