rhapsody

programme

Frederik Neyrinck

new composition

about

“Tell me what makes this life worth living”: It was with these words that Wim Kayzer opened the discussion with artists, scientists and philosophers in his TV series Van de schoonheid en de troost (Of Beauty and Consolation).

After revisiting this VPRO series, made in 2000, the author and dramatist Josse de Pauw was convinced of one thing: He had to do something with it. He teamed up with LOD composer Frederik Neyrinck, with whom he had worked on Zolang hij niet sichzelve kent (As long as he does not know himself). The result, Rhapsody, is a whimsical performance, an ode to thinking, doubting and not knowing, because you don't always have to understand everything to feel that you are in the presence of something important.

Josse De Pauw: “I still find Wim Kayzer's long conversations with artists and scientists absolutely captivating. I hear people thinking out loud. I don't need to agree with them or fully understand them. It is simply the beauty of thinking out loud, of these great minds that attempt to clarify what they are grappling with and what inspires them. It is this attempt at communication."