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Calefax + Mohammad Motamedi (photo Eric van Nieuwland)

Song of the Reed

Calefax + Mohammad Motamedi
Thu 21 Nov 2024 20:15 - 21:45
Thu 21 Nov 2024
20:15 - 21:45
  • Thu 21 Nov 2024
    20:15 - 21:45
    Grote Zaal
    Tickets

Program

19.15 / Foyerdeck 1 / Pre-concert talk
Moderator Huib Ramaer in conversation with Iranian theatre scholar and director Anahita Shamsavari

19.45 – 20.00 uur / Entreehal
Pre-concert performance Echoes of Nothing door Alharaca Duo 
Nuria Tello Nieto clarinet
Enrique Álvarez del Moral piano

20.15 / Grote Zaal / Main programme
Iranian songs
Claude Debussy Syrinx (arr. Raaf Hekkema)
Duke Ellington Isfahan (arr. Raaf Hekkema)
Heinrich Isaac/Johann Sebastian Bach/Johannes Brahms Innsbruck ich muss’ dich lassen
Johannes Ockeghem Mort, tu as navré (arr. Raaf Hekkema)

Credits

Calefax:
Oliver Boekhoorn oboe
Bart de Kater clarinet
Raaf Hekkema saxophone
Jelte Althuis bass clarinet
Alban Wesly bassoon

Mohammad Motamedi vocals
Pouriya Jaberi percussion

Homesickness expressed in Iranian songs and instrumental classical music

In Song of the Reed, the Calefax reed quintet meets one of Iran’s most famous singers, Mohammad Motamedi. Together, the musicians present a cross-pollination of traditional Iranian songs and instrumental classical music. Centuries-old Persian poetry serves as a wellspring of inspiration for Iranian songs. Motamedi excels in the art of weaving graceful melodies around these verses.

The programme is about the feeling of homesickness for the place one comes from. Song of the Reed is a poem of the same name by 13th-century mystic poet Rumi, which describes the pain of those who are cut off from their home, like a reed cut from its reed bed. 


Programme booklet (Dutch)

Part of
Calefax (photo Merlijn Doomernik)
Calefax (photo Merlijn Doomernik)
Pouriya Jaberi (photo Vid Amir)
Pouriya Jaberi (photo Vid Amir)
Calefax (photo Sarah Wijzenbeek)
Calefax (photo Sarah Wijzenbeek)
Mohammad Motamedi
Mohammad Motamedi

Context

Echoes of Nothing

Fringe programmes in collaboration with Conservatorium van Amsterdam