Saturday, 11/23/2024
at 8:00 PM



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With POST. KAFKA, NICO AND THE NAVIGATORS connect a letter and a song cycle. The Kafka fragments by György Kurtág are a challenge in the best sense: Forty miniatures – from the fleeting outburst that lasts seconds to the prolonged meditation that stretches for minutes – the composer has shaped from the notes of Franz Kafka, creating a whole that appears both fragile and fractal. Incidental observations alternate with moral maxims; perspectives vary with the tonal colors: The bagatelle “Someone tugged at my dress, but I shook him off” stands next to the command “In the struggle between you and the world, side with the world,” the impression “The seamstresses in the rainstorms” next to the consolation “Hiding places are countless, rescue only one, but possibilities for rescue as numerous as hiding places.” That Kurtág has elevated this flotsam from the stream of consciousness into soprano heights and accompanied it with a solo violin points the way for NICO AND THE NAVIGATORS, in collaboration with the LITERATURHAUS BERLIN, to their own interpretation in the 100th death year of the poet: For POST. KAFKA, they add another famous work to the cycle, which remains unfinished because it has gone unanswered, as an invitation to a dialogue.

 

The performance consists of an arrangement of music, singing, and language combined with projection and movement – a continuation of the method that NICO AND THE NAVIGATORS have successfully tested in their engagement with T. S. Eliot’s “The Waste Land.”

Participants:
NICO AND THE NAVIGATORS
Light: Leroy Nikolas von Bergen

Performed works:
Franz Kafka “Letter to the Father” / György Kurtág “Kafka Fragments

Tickets: 15 €, reduced 10 €
For Thursday 21.11. 20:00 online or at the box office.
For Friday 22.11. 20:00 online or at the box office.
For Saturday 23.11. 20:00 online or at the box office.

Organizer:
A production by Nico and the Navigators, funded by the Berlin Senate Department for Culture and Social Cohesion. In co-production with the Literaturhaus Berlin. In cooperation with the Kasseler Musiktage and the Kultur Büro Elisabeth.


Event data provided by: Kulturkurier

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