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Saturday, 11/14/2026
at 5:00 PM



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Musical pleas and songs of thanks from the 17th century by Heinrich Schütz, Samuel Scheidt, Johann Heinrich Schmelzer, Johann Hildebrand, and Sigmund Staden in dialogue with modern sound worlds

B'ROCK ORCHESTRA & VOCAL CONSORT
ANDREAS KÜPPERS / Conductor
INNE EYSERMANS, KATHERINA LINDEKENS / Soundscapes

"Oh God, we did not know what a plague war is," laments the Saxon poet-composer Johann Hildebrand in 1645 in his "Krieges-Angst Seufftzern." Of course, people could have known this even then, but their capacity to learn on this matter has proven to be very limited even to this day. Through the emotional extremes of a Europe in the Thirty Years' War, from pleas and penitential psalms to proud battle music and concluding with a prayer of thanks after the Peace of Westphalia, the program of the Belgian B'Rock Orchestra and its vocal consort moves through intimate and grand works from the 17th century. "War and Peace" – a theme that in 2026 continues to bring to mind a world map full of conflict hotspots. The sound artists Inne Eysermans and Katherina Lindekens broaden the perspective by placing acoustic islands of today within the flow of the music of Heinrich Schütz and his contemporaries.

Doors open: 4:00 PM

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