Het Collectief & Liesbeth Devos
1918-1968-2018: Cinquantenaires van de zotheid
Dates
sat 15 dec 2018 - 20:00
location
Blauwe zaal
price
€25, €20 (standard) / €20, €15 (under-25s/over-65s) / €8 (under-19s)
duration
1h 15' Extra info
Eva Van Daele . 7.15pm . Blue Bar
“Jolifanto bambla ô falli bambla”: enveloped in a cardboard costume, Hugo Ball recites his poem ‘Karawane’ in Zurich’s Cabaret Voltaire, the birthplace of Dadaism. In 1917 the Dadaists watch from neutral Switzerland as the First World War lays waste to Europe. They respond to logic and reason, which they regard as partially responsible for this tragedy, with pure nonsense. A great many composers take inspiration from an identical stance. Fifty years on and it’s the same old story: whilst almost everyone comes to realise the pointlessness of the Vietnam War, composers eagerly make fun of the norm. According to Het Collectief, folly is now topical again. Its fourteen musicians bring you compositions in all shades of crazy. After all, the fool also speaks a wise word from time to time.
Works
‘Ragtime’ voor 11 instrumenten (1918)
‘TemA’ voor fluit, stem en cello (1968)
‘Sonata Erotica’ voor stem solo (1919)
‘Sequenza III’ voor stem solo (1966)
Serenade voor ensemble (1968)
‘Rapsodie nègre’ (1917)
Musique d’ameublement (1917)
Pavan nr 2 after Purcell (1968)
Karawane (1917)