‘Sister, your song bears a burden…’
Paolo Gorini
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It’s like… (Ned. première)
Mauro Montalbetti
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Night Dances; 11 songs with and without words
Silvia Borzelli
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Stalagma (Anna Politkovskaja in memoriam)
Bec Plexus (previously known as Brechtje van Dijk)
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new work
Aaron Copland
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Twelve Poems of Emily Dickinson
Elisabeth Hetherington, soprano / Paolo Gorini, piano / Fiona Robertson, violin / Christine Lee, cello / Marco Danesi, clarinet
A tribute to Emily Dickinson, Sylvia Plath and Anna Politkovskaja
At the occasion of 100 years of women’s right to vote in the Netherlands, soprano Elisabeth Hetherington put together a programme around the writing of female icons such as Sylvia Plath and Emily Dickinson, set to music by Paolo Gorini and Mauro Montalbetti. Composer Silvia Borzelli pays homage to journalist and human rights activist Anna Politkovskaja, who was murdered in 2006. In her work, she was critical of the Russian oppression of the people of Chechnya.
