Dissonance of power

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An evening between music, power and morality: from 5pm to 11pm, an evening about music and power, about sound and control unfolds. Works by Dmitri Shostakovich and his contemporaries - composers who lived in the field of tension between ideology and artistic truth - come together in several rooms. Their music reflects the dissonance of power: the juxtaposition of pathos and fear, of compulsion and inner freedom.

Shostakovich wrote in the shadow of Stalin - a life between fame and threat. His sounds oscillate between hymn and accusation, between official partisanship and secret subversion. The dissonance that can be heard in his music is not just aesthetic: it is an expression of a political state in which art becomes a mirror of power.

The evening invites you to experience this conflict through listening. Musical spaces become experiential spaces in which the mechanisms of control, fear and adaptation are acoustically revealed. Between performances, readings and discussions, a course of listening is created that understands sound as a political language.

"Dissonance of Power" shows how music does not fall silent in times of terror, but preserves its truth in nuances, ironies and breaks. Referring to a present in which the Russian regime is waging a brutal war of aggression against Ukraine, in which we feel in many places how vulnerable democracies are and observe how respect, tolerance and peace are at stake, we must take a stand against these developments all the more. "Dissonance of Power" is an evening about listening in a state of emergency - about the fragile freedom of art in the face of power.

Program
The program includes almost all of Shostakovich's piano literature with numerous solo and chamber music works as well as the Piano Concertos No. 1 and No. 2. Selected works by interesting companions and contemporaries will also be performed.

Complete program with instrumentation lists and room details__

Students of the HfMT, the Ensemble 13/14 under the direction of Ulrich Windfuhr, Young ClassX under the direction of Clemens Malich, as well as teachers of the HfMT, including Tanja Becker-Bender, Antonio Di Dedda, Asya Fateyeva, Anna-Kreetta Gribajcevic, Sebastian Klinger, Aleksandar Madzar, Clemens Malich, Stepan Simonian and Caroline Weichert will perform.

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