Easter Concert 2017

The concert presents a project of documenta 14`s artitsts Ross Birrell and David Harding, based on the Third Symphony, known also as «Symphony of Sorrowful Songs» from the important Polish composer, Henryk Górecki and will be given with the collaboration of members of the Syrian Expat Philharmonic Orchestra (SEPO), under the artistic direction of its founder, Raed Jazbeh. The Symphony of Sorrowful Songs is the Polish composer’s best-known work. It is a poignant lament for orchestra and soprano in three movements, each focusing on the sense of hopelessness, separation, and loss experienced by parents and children as a consequence of war.

The concert will start with "Fugue", a composition for solo violin by Syrian violinist and composer, Ali Moraly, in collaboration with Ross Birrell, Fugue is inspired by Paul Celan’s powerful and dark response to the Holocaust in the poem Death Fugue (1948) The word “fugue” is derived from the Latin “fugere”, “to flee” and the Greek «fe???» from which also stems the word “refugee”.