a contemporary fairy tale by Annet Schaap for everyone from 6 years old and music of Pictures at an Exhibition by Modest Mussorgsky.
PREMIERE July 01, 2018, TivoliVredenburg Utrecht
Harriet Krijgh, who is organizing her own International Chamber Music Festival for the second time settles down in the spectacular music hall Tivoli Vredenburg Utrecht. And also the family concert is joining. This time one can enjoy with the whole family the fairytale The Tree and its Ear, specially written by Annet Schaap for the festival. Annet Schaap is a well known price winning Dutch writer. Inspired by the famous music of Mussorgsky Annet wrote a modern fairytale The Tree and its Ear about a boy who has experienced something huge.
But how do you find a listening ear? The class is doing arithmetic and the teacher demands silence. Mom is at work, at home there is nobody, and the boy is not allowed to talk to strangers . In the park near the school birds are busy building nests and the onrushing dog just wants to play. "Go to the tree with the ear, everyone does", evokes a bird. The tree with the ear? It is not difficult to find the highest tree in the park. Its branches seem to reach to the clouds, not even five people can embrace its trunk. At the ear animals are lining up. Beetles, squirrels, mice, centipedes are pushing. Because everyone has a story and ears are rare.
In a playful staging by Annechien Koerselman narrator Maartje Stokkers and the energetic Signum Saxophone Quartet will reveal the different musical stories which are whispered in the ear of the tree. Like the composition of Modest Mussorgsky sometimes sad, but just as often exciting, magically put to image by sandprincess Rosa van der Vijver.
The fairy tale The Tree and Its Ear has been published in the mean time by publisher Querido in May 2019.
Photo © Allard Willemse
Credits Cast & Crew
Narrator Maartje Stokkers
Musicians Signum Saxophone Quartet:
Soprano saxophone Blaž Kemperle
Alto saxophone Hayrapet Arakelyan
Tenor saxphone Alan Luzar
Baritone saxophone Guerino Bellarosa
Composition Pictures at an Exhibition by Modest Mussorgsky
Text Annet Schaap
Stage direction, Musical dramaturgy & Costumes Annechien Koerselman
Sandprincess Rosa van der Vijver
Lightdesign Nico Kraeima
Arranger Andreas N. Tarkmann
Organisation Internationaal Kamermuziekfestival Utrecht
Concertcalender
Utrecht Tivoli Vredenburg Main Hall July 01, 2018 14.00h
More information: www.kamermuziekfestival.nl, www.signum-saxophone.com
Find a tree with an ear. Find something that listens.
Image © Wojciech Grzanka
