Andriessen’s De Staat
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Thu 12 Sep 202420:15 - 22:10Interval 20:55Grote Zaal
Program
18.00 / Entrance Hall / Context programme
Pelumi Adejumo, Zeno van den Broek, Thanasis Deligiannis, Cathy van Eck, Joy Guidry , Valérian Guillaume, Ted Hearne, Janne Kosmos, Dmitri Kourliandski, Johannes Kreidler, Moor Mother, Genevieve Murphy, Keir Neuringer, Stephanie Pan, François Sarhan, Maya Verlaak, Jennifer Walshe 17 new reflections on De Staat
19.15 / Foyerdeck 1 / Pre-concert talk
by Michel Khalifa
20.15 / Grote Zaal / Main programme
Louis Andriessen De Staat
Oscar Bettison On the slow weather of dreams*
* commissioned by Asko|Schönberg
Credits
Asko|Schönberg
Ensemble Klang
Students of the Conservatorium van Amsterdam
Clark Rundell conductor
With De Staat (1976), Louis Andriessen composed music for eternity. This highly personal mix of Stravinsky, American minimal, European avant-garde and jazz caused a shockwave in the international music world. Asko|Schönberg presents this politically charged work alongside a brand new work by Oscar Bettison. Bettison studied with Andriessen and is composer in residence at Asko|Schönberg this season.
Andriessen drew inspiration from minimal music when composing De Staat, but applied minimalism in his utterly unique way. Bettison has written his piece for the same ensemble as De Staat. He sees his work as a ‘nocturnal wonderland’. A group of pianos, harps, and guitars are positioned centre stage, with some musicians changing positions. The singers incite the brass players and invoke the night.
18.00 / Context programme / 17 new reflections on De Staat
Louis Andriessen composed De Staat between 1972 and 1976, with the idea of contributing to the debate about the relationship between music and politics. In 2024 we live in a completely different - political and musical - world than 48 years ago when De Staat was first performed. In an attempt to once again contribute to the debate about the relationship between music and politics and to place De Staat in 2024, Asko|Schönberg, Ensemble Klang, Gaudeamus, Musica Strasbourg and Muziekgebouw aan 't IJ have each asked three to five composers to make a reflection at De Staat. A free assignment, anything is allowed! From a completely conceptual, unexecutable idea or a completely new score. Only limitation is that the final reflection fits one page.
Seventeen composers accepted the commission. Some knew Louis Andriessen well, studied with him, others look at De Staat from a different perspective.
Before, after and during the performance of Andriessen's De Staat, the reflections can be seen and heard in various places in the building. Some reflections are only shown on paper, others are performed at unexpected moments in different corners of the concert hall.
This concert will be broadcast live by NTR on NPO Klassiek
