Discourse / Music causes abuse

Abuse of power, sexual violence and a lack of attentiveness can be found in the music business, but also in the repertoire itself: All of this is more or less clearly thematised in some of the best-known art songs. The song and discussion evening aims to focus on this. The pianist and lyricist Daniel Arkadij Gerzenberg will organise it with the soprano Sophia Burgos - also against the backdrop of his own experience of abuse, which he dealt with in his long poem 'wiedergutmachungsjude'. Art songs alternate with electronically altered improvisations by Sophia Burgos, which take up lines from Gerzenberg's book. The Berlin composer Hector Docx will set a section of the same text to music, which will be premiered on this evening. After the concert, a high-calibre panel will discuss the abuse of power and lack of mindfulness in classical music, topics that are only gradually coming to the fore.

The concert is part of the Beethovenfest Bonn's ‘Inside Artists’ project, funded by the Liz Mohn Foundation and 'tuned - Netzwerk für zeitgenössische Klassik' of the German Federal Cultural Foundation.