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Ilja Leonard Pfeijffer

de oude woorden...

een idylle van pfeijffer op muziek van frederik neyrinck

Ilja Leonard Pfeijffer, Frederik Neyrinck
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timing

20:00 

 

performers

Lore Binon, soprano
Josse De Pauw, narrator
I SOLISTI, instrumentalists

 

interview

Ilja Leonard Pfeijffer
Nicky Aerts, moderator

 

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13 March is coming closer. Two weeks until Klarafestival 2021: the digital experience takes off. This year we will bring Klarafestival to you.
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klarafestival — the digital experience

With the upcoming spring, Klarafestival 2021 is quickly taking shape. A little while ago we promised – with Es ist noch nicht alles verloren! (All is not lost!) – a reassuring and hopeful festival with the relationships between people and their environment at its heart. So it’s time for an update!  
Jan Raes

video series: unanswered questions

A few days before Klarafestival 2021, we’d like to get you in the mood with our new video series ‘Unanswered Questions’. Five people, somehow connected to the festival, reflect on the theme ‘es ist noch nicht alles verloren’. What power do they draw from music? What is their source of hope? Listen to their story

programme

 

frederik neyrinck / Ilja Leonard Pfeijffer

De oude woorden van een tijd die komen gaat

 

about

Who is the most famous Dutch author? Ilja Leonard Pfeijffer! Not only is he renowned for major novels such as Brieven uit Genua, La Superba and Grand Hotel Europa, he also writes exquisite poetry. His latest collection, Idyllen, was published in 2015 and consists of no fewer than 50 narrative poems in rhyming alexandrines. In the era of Facebook and Twitter addiction, refugees on boats and the Israel-Palestine conflict, Pfeijffer’s Idyllen are first and foremost a farewell to the idyllic. However, the reader will find some solace in Pfeijffer’s unsurpassed linguistic skill.

Klarafestival and Passa Porta Festival commissioned Ilja Leonard Pfeijffer to write a new idyll with a world altered by the pandemic in mind. On the basis of this poem, titled De oude woorden van een tijd die komen gaat (‘Old words from a text that is to come’), Frederik Neyrinck composed a new piece for soprano, narrator, two brass and two woodwind instruments.   

The instrumentalists of the Antwerp wind ensemble I SOLISTI perform this composition in collaboration with Lore Binon (soprano) and Josse De Pauw (narration). Prior to the creation of De oude woorden van een tijd die komen gaat, Ilja Leonard Pfeijffer will be interviewed by Nicky Aerts (Klara).

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read here the text by Ilja Leonard Pfeijffer

 

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From March 13 until 22, we will present forgotten gems, great Romantic classics, plenty of new creations and also new, young talent. You’re welcome on our website to explore this digital experience. If you want to enjoy the free digital concerts, please don't forget to register in advance. Register via www.klarafestival.be/live and watch the entire festival in optimal audio and video quality for free.

 

'De oude woorden...' is also part of the Passa Porta Festival, that runs from 21 to 28 March. More information about the programme can be found here.

The interview prior to the creation will be conducted in Dutch.

 

credits

commission

Klarafestival, Passa Porta Festival

coproduction

Klarafestival, Passa Porta Festival, BOZAR, Muziektheater LOD

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BOZAR (the M hall)

 

image © Stephan Vanfleteren