… i am no poet
A multifaceted cross-disciplinary performance, inspired by Mozart
vodeon will perform at Würzburg’s Mozart Festival on June 1st at 11:00 am.
In 1777, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart wrote to his father:
I cannot write poetically: I am no poet.
I cannot divide phrases so artfully that they give light and shadow: I am not a painter.
I cannot even express my sentiments and thoughts through gestures and pantomime: I am no dancer.
But I can do it through sounds: I am a musician.
And it’s true: Mozart was a musician. And so vodeon presents his sacred music in what seems like a traditional way—simple, songlike, for solo voices SATB, in classical concert attire and with piano.
But doesn’t his music also feel poetic? We explore this by creating a contrafactural reinterpretations of Latin texts—such as those from the Mass—as commissioned works for the librettist, allowing the poet to lay his own thoughts as new lyrics under the influence of Mozart’s music.
Finally, vodeon believes that his music also shimmers with color and even dances:
Two dancing painters will, over the course of the performance, create their own stage design live—painting the set with brushes and interacting in gesture and movement with Mozart’s reimagined works.
At the start of the performance, only the sound of five musicians fills the otherwise empty stage. By the end, we will all have arrived somewhere else—at a place glowing with color, moved by the musician, poet, painter, dancer: Mozart.
Performers:
Camilla Saba Davies, Soprano
Hana Katsenes, Alto
Berthold Schindler, Tenor
Georg Gädker, Baritone
Nathan Harris, Piano
Anima Henn & Cristian Cucco, Dancing Painters
Clayton Bowman, Artistic Director
Richard Friedrich Schwartz, Libretto
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