{"id":5273,"date":"2025-04-16T13:49:19","date_gmt":"2025-04-16T11:49:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thebigsing.nl\/timetable\/avenue-azure-hollands-collectief-visio-koor-lightness\/"},"modified":"2025-06-19T17:04:41","modified_gmt":"2025-06-19T15:04:41","slug":"avenue-azure-hollands-collectief-oorzaak-koor-lightness","status":"publish","type":"tribe_events","link":"https:\/\/thebigsing.nl\/en\/timetable\/avenue-azure-hollands-collectief-oorzaak-koor-lightness\/","title":{"rendered":"Avenue Azure | Hollands Collectief | Het Oorzaak Koor \u2013 Lightness"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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Avenue Azure | Hollands Collectief | Het Oorzaak Koor \u2013 Lightness<\/h2>

Location: De SCHUUR – Haarlem<\/strong><\/p>

LIGHTNESS <\/strong>(Festival commission, worldpremiere)<\/p>

Lightness <\/em>is a concert with stories, music, spoken and sung text. It explores sensory perception by verbally describing visual experiences and translating colours into music. What does \u2018red\u2019 sound like? How do you describe \u2018green\u2019 without seeing it? And how do we experience art, music and choral singing as a collective while our individual experiences remain unique?<\/p>

The performance is inspired by a special moment in art history: in October 1907, the poet Rainer Maria Rilke visited an exhibition of works by Paul C\u00e9zanne. In letters to his wife, he described his sensory experiences of the paintings \u2013 not only as love letters to her, but also as an ode to C\u00e9zanne’s art. The list of Cezanne\u2019s works shown at this exhibition have been largely lost, and Rilke’s descriptions therefore form a speculative, if not virtual, poetic catalogue of what might have been exhibited. At the same time, those words are the only image we have of the exhibition.<\/p>

Lightness <\/em><\/strong>is a commission by The Big Sing, in co-production with the Ensemble Klang Foundation, and brings together a new composition by Pete Harden with texts by Rilke. The performance is a contemporary reflection on sensory experiences. In a dark setting, the performance aims to evoke abstract colours, textures and landscapes. The dramaturgy and text are provided by Avenue Azure and Belgian writer Tomas Serrien, who has researched the perception of music by people with sensory impairments. He wrote about this in his book Klank: een filosofie van de muzikale ervaring (Sound: a philosophy of the musical experience).<\/em><\/p>

\u201c[Saskia Lankhoorn] \u2026 is a virtuoso of contemporary music\u2026\u201d \u2013 The New York Times<\/em><\/p>

Pete Harden has \u201chis own kind of refreshing minimalism [\u2026] a very personal writing style [and] great originality\u201d jury report for the Matthijs Vermeulen Prize 2023<\/em><\/p>

\u201can impressive concert [\u2026] original combination [\u2026] sung with perfection\u201d about the Dutch Collective vocal quartet Wilma Hartsuiker and Judith Heeres – Goede Rede Concerts Almere <\/em><\/p>

Avenue Azure
<\/strong>Pete Harden : composition, guitar
Saskia Lankhoorn : piano, keyboards, vocals<\/p>

Hollands Collectief
<\/strong>Elisabeth Blom : soprano
Hebe de Champeaux : alto
Edward Ross, : tenor
Kees Jan de Koning : bass<\/p>

Het Oorzaak Koor<\/strong><\/p>

Music: Pete Harden & Avenue Azure
Dramaturgy & text: Tomas Serrien<\/p>

Lightness<\/em> is a co-production of Big Sing Festival (Haarlem) and Stichting Ensemble Klang.<\/p>

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