LABSOUNDS: WORKER'S UNION

Social unrest creates the need for loud voices: with Worker's Union, Louis Andriessen explores the tension between individual freedom and severe discipline. The work calls for any loud-sounding ensemble and gives the musicians strict rythm but with free choice of notes. In his own words: "It is difficult to play in ensemble and to remain in step, similar to organizing and carrying out political actions.”

Worker's Union is flanked by works of Johnson, Berio and Crumb - all contemporaries of Andriessen - and 2 living composers: Thomas Adès and a creation by LUCA student Shir Ran.

Programme:

Tom Johnson: Rational Melodies I, X, XV

Luciano Berio: Duetti

George Crumb: Vox Balenae (selected var.)

Luciano Berio: Duetti

Shir-Ran Yinon: Episodes

Luciano Berio: Duetti

Kaija Saariaho: Tocar

Luciano Berio: Duetti

Louis Andriessen: Worker's Union