De Avond van de dood

The Evenings Death is an inexhaustible theme in art. Poets and composers tackle it with sadness and fury, wantonness and sarcasm. In a selection from two centuries of Dutch-language poetry, death is suffered with pride and courage and dying is tragically and melancholically described. The poet is there to give precise expression to feelings and insights. The power of the form, that is what it is about. Only the poet writes the telling line which no living person knew existed. In 'Long live the dead!', the starting point is the love of poetry and the aversion to the wooden touch of sanctity. With such great masters as Johann Sebastian Bach and cellist Roel Dieltiens and a dazzling vocal quartet. The ambition: beauty and disruption, earnestness and humour, euphoria and melancholy.