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Frau F. sucht die Milch

Frau F. sucht die Milch

Frau F. trinkt ihren Kaffee mit Milch. Immer. Ohne Zucker.

Kaffee gibt es zum Frühstück und zum Nachmittagskaffee.

Regelmäßig sucht sie abends die Milch. Suchend geht ihr Blick über den ganzen Tisch. Da sie mittlerweile sehr schlecht sieht geht auch ihre Hand suchend über die einzelnen Dinge, die auf dem Tisch stehen.

“Suchen Sie etwas, Frau F.?” , frage ich.

Stumm, mit weit aufgerissenen Augen,…

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munich classics 23 by andydauer

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Love, Strauss and the other orchestra

Richard Strauss's 150 anniversary is being celebrated this year, and the Rundfunk Sinfonie Orchester played its part on it some months ago with a very interesting program and sadly not a lot of public.

I have to say that Strauss has a special place in my heart and of course I didn't want to miss the tribute that was being payed to him in the Philharmonie, that's why when my shift was over I had already taken care of everything and got to listen to the concert.

Marek Janowsky was conducting the RSO with a complete Strauss' program, opening with the Deutsche Motetten for 4 solo voices and choir a capella, the Tageszeiten (the Daytimes) and the Methamorphosen as the icing on the cake.

The German Motteten were very interesting indeed, but I have to confess: I took that time to read the program. Then the Tageszeiten began and my heart found peace and stopped pounding from a scary encounter with my evil boss some minutes ago.

The first sound that flowed through the stage was the male choir, singing a capella “the rooster crows in the roof!” and making way for the day to start. The morning comes in a very mystical way followed by the “Mittagsruh” a very german word that would represent the calm of midday in all his alpine-farm-like way.

After the calm heat of midday is over the timpani make a call to all the nocturnal beings and the Abend (afternoon)comes with all the mysticism from before but exploding with much more power, as an enormous wave of harmony that leads to the romantic daytime par excellence, die Nacht (the night). The afternoon explosion and the string-wave turns into the most romantic of expressions, with the horns as introduction. After the whole day, one's heart finds finally some peace.

The Metamorphosen however, are a complete different story.

The II World War was in its closing years and even though Strauss didn't write any programme about this composition, it's not difficult to hear the loss and the mourning in the piece. It is a piece written for 23 string soloists so it works as an enlarged chamber music ensemble where every instrument has its own thing to say.

When the piece began my heart was grabbed by an invisible hand that didn't let it go till the piece was over. There was a very strong tension, the music and its harmony were so powerful that I couldn't think of anything else.

The 23 musicians are not part of an ensemble anymore, they are individuals with their own independent voice, screaming to the skies and being carried away and melted with the other instruments, sometimes becoming a wholeness but most of the time fighting to escape, even though they connect with each other, now that violin and that other cello, one of the contrabasses with the first viola and so on and so on, melting and going in circles till the music suddenly stops. These seconds seem to give time to let go of your heart and let you breathe for a tiny second, but before you have time to expire the music begins again. The harmony keeps tearing you apart, the celli and double basses keep your feet on the ground while the rest of the strings take you higher than the ceiling, you feel completely torn apart but by a beautiful thing, and in the end, everything gets silent and suddenly it's over.

I have to say that by the time it ended my head was completely full of music. The bad opinion I had about this orchestra, the one that had been hunting me for some months, left me with a very good and warm feeling.

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