The festival @ LUNCH: Divine Madness
Australia
Friedrich Holderlin, one of Germany’s greatest poets, has been the inspiration for music from Schumann and Brahms to the present day. The last part of his life was lived in solitude, obscurity and madness in the tower of a castle in Tubingen. Disjointed fragments of poetry that survive from this period, ignored for almost a century, are now seen to contain a “unique understanding of reality”.
This concert features settings of Holderlin’s ‘mad’ poetry by some of the most significant composers of the last half-century as well as inspiring Three Nocturnes by Whittington. The program concludes with Ullmann’s Drei Holderlin Lieder, stunning works written in Theresienstadt Concentration Camp before his death in Auschwitz.
WHERE
Elder Hall
WHEN
Mon 12 Mar 1pm
DURATION
60 minutes (no interval)
TICKETS
Adult $20
Friends/Concession $15
Multi-concert passes available
PLANNER
Wheelchair access
MAP
Elder Hall
Adelaide University Campus, North Terrace
credits
Tenor: Robert MacFarlane
Piano: Stephen Whittington
Presented in association with Adelaide Festival
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