Ratingen, 8 October, 20:00. 
Trevor Grahl, "Of Ancient Days": Prelude
Trevor Grahl, Hyperorgan

Prelude: Unda Maris

Sebastian Kemner, Vincent Van Wijk, babblers. (Trombone, Oboe)

BaBbeLboX

Arranged for Thomas Hampson and the Klangforum Wien, Bas Wiegers, cond. Live recording, Vienna, 29.6.2022

The storm and stress of life!
The curse of war and strife!
The harsh vindictiveness of men!
The cuts of sword and pen!
What needed to be borne - he bore!
What needed to be fought - he fought!
But in his soul, he stood them up as - naught!

And so he came from the prairie cabin to the Capitol,
One fair ideal led our chieftain on,
He built the rail pile as he built the State,
The conscience testing every stroke,
to make his deed the measure of the man…
So came our Captain with the mighty heart;
And when the step of earthquake shook the house,
Wrenching rafters from their ancient hold,
He held the ridge-pole up
and spiked again the rafters of the Home….
He held his place …
he held the long purpose like a growing tree
Held on thro’ blame and faltered not at praise,
And when he fell in whirlwind,
he went down as when a Kingly cedar green with boughs
goes down with a great shout, upon the hills!

From "Lincoln, the Great Commoner" - Edwin Markham

Lincoln, The Great Commoner (Charles Ives, arr. T. Grahl) Feat. Thomas Hampson

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The Sycamore Tree

a short miniature piece

Based on Zweig’s novella, Brennendes Geheimnis is a recollection-journey back to the time of childhood and all of the encompassing emotional states: naiveté, extreme innocence, the magic of the unknown, the excitement of play, yet also despair, fear of the dark, monsters in closets, and extreme unchecked anger. It’s a cross-section of the joys and pains of growing up, of transforming, of learning, and experiencing, of understanding human nature. We all know and have experienced the eponymous secret from the first page, but as we read, Zweig transforms us with his wizardry: we all become young Edgar and feel again the mysterious burn along with him. The secret here is represented in sound, a buzzing, vibrating, energetic sensation sounding from the back of the orchestra, standing at odds to its surrounding sound-world – a foreign strange sensation, yet with a certain curiosity and fascination inside. We only experience it for seconds at a time at first, as the music swerves and ramps around it, simply trying to ignore it, or avoid it, with all the energy, sudden mood changes, and tantrums of a youngster. But certain forces cannot be ignored: this mysterious sound swells and grows from within, until at last, it’s everywhere, unescapable, like a black hole. The yearning to experience the future turns back on itself and affects even the past. One of the most beautiful and heart rending moments in Zweig’s work is what happens during the last few pages: a curtain suddenly drops, and Edgar experiences this omnipresent buzzing dissonance as a part of a complex natural network, and in an instant, understands its nature. Rather than a work about the petulance and wanton paroxysms of children, Brennendes Geheimnis is about hopeful futures: a Bildungsroman in sound, celebrating both the joys and intense tensions of the unknown on the path to maturity, leaving the door open for a bright futures which all youth deserve.

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