Sounds of worship

Anniversary concerts for 15 years AuditivVokal Dresden

In an increasingly dense culture with countless occasions of commemoration and remembrance, it is important today to also question moments of remembrance:

Does the celebration of anniversaries merely serve to honour round numbers qua 'numerical necessity'? Or can it offer its own perspective on the phenomenon of 'time', on processuality, development, the encounter between past and present? The social phenomenon of anniversaries and commemorative days originally has its roots in religious festivals that are strongly linked to emotional experience. It is precisely this primordiality of emotional experience that the programme "Verehrungsklänge" (Sounds of Worship) wants the audience to experience and thus build a bridge between old and new, not only musically but also affectively.

To this end, AuditivVokal Dresden is not only celebrating its own birthday this year, but also other anniversaries: from the 100th birthday of Iannis Xenakis to the 125th anniversary of the death of Johannes Brahms, the 200th birthday of Korla Awgust Kocor, the 350th anniversary of the death of Heinrich Schütz and the 525th anniversary of the death of Johannes Ockeghem, the ensemble would like to celebrate these esteemed anniversaries musically.

Following the current programmatic idea, the anniversary programme takes the audience on a varied journey of different dialects and vernaculars - and shows that language is at least as diverse and rich in tradition as birthday customs and congratulations. Works can be heard in Leipzig dialect (Peer Baierlein, Hymnus an die Musiek), in Erzgebirge dialect (Alberto Arroyo, In der Hammerschen) as well as in Vogtland articulation (Erlaube mir, feins Mädchen), among others.

In this sense: