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SPECTRA
Description
In the lead-up to the Great War, a social conflict was brewing worldwide in which all certainties seemed to disappear. Modernist artists fought their internal battles too, and often found salvation in extreme individualism grounded in their own theories. It was perhaps an escape in which the need for originality and innovation was the only holdout. Debussy, Ravel, Ives, Stravinsky and Berg were exemplary signposts to unexplored paths in this period.
The young Belgian composers Koen Quintyn and Mirek Coutigny stand in an equally conflicted world a century later. How do they experience this inner struggle? Do they too seek out these fault lines? With their blends of folk culture, jazz, pop and other genres, have their modernist predecessors already paved the way? A penetrating programme, with Stravinsky's iconic L'histoire du soldat as the pièce de résistance.
Programme
- Maurice Ravel – From Le Tombeau de Couperin: Prélude
- Claude Debussy – Cello Sonata
- Koen Quintyn – Vices
- Rebecca Clarke – Lullaby and Grotesque
- Alban Berg – Vier Stücke für Klarinette und Klavier, op. 5
- Mirek Coutigny – The Trail
- Charles Ives – Violin Sonata no. 4, Children’s Day at the Camp Meeting
- Igor Stravinsky – L’histoire du soldat
Performers
SPECTRA
- Julien Bénéteau, clarinet
- Pieter Jansen, violin
- Bram Bossier, viola
- Francis Mourey, cello
- Lukas Huisman, piano
Biography
SPECTRA
- SPECTRA is an ensemble for new music
- Was founded in 1993
- Is artistically directed and conducted by Filip Rathé
- Collaborates with and promotes Flemish living composers
- Creates many commissioned works in dialogue with compositions from the recent past
- Often collaborates with other disciplines
- Shares its expertise in the Master-after-Master programme of the School of Arts in Ghent
Practical
Location
- CC De Ververij
Wolvestraat 37
9600 Ronse
Timing
- The performance takes place on Sunday, November 9th
- Start time: 20:00
