Mahler Forum

for Music
and Society

für Musik
und Gesellschaft

The Power of Wonder

We look forward to the third Mahler Forum for Music and Society!
Entitled The Power of Wonder – Astonishment as a Driving Force for Community Building, the 2023 Forum devotes itself to astonishment as a motor of thought and its relevance for democratic processes: shared wonder as a wake-up call, as a boundary experience, as an instrument of analysis, and as a bridge between sensation and realisation. Visitors and participants alike are encouraged to think and discuss together in amazement from the perspectives of the visual arts, music, literature, the humanities, and the natural sciences. Musical contributions will alternate with keynotes, performances, artistic interventions, and open rounds of talks.

The musical program curated by musicologist Morten Solvik will be performed by the ensemble of the Alma Mahler Musikverein under the direction of Alja Klemenc and by students of and graduates from the Gustav Mahler Private University for Music.

Through her performance Medium: Theremin Orchestra, taking place on July 8, Pamelia Stickney will elicit sound from the artistic installation Lampenfieber by Anna Jermolaewa, co-curated by Felicitas Thun-Hohenstein and section.a.

Let us appoint wonder our accomplice and direct attention to this moment of boundary experience, curiosity, and reflection, of insight and blindness, thus fathoming this intricate spark of thought, recognition, insight, and action in joint discussion.

Friday 07/07/2023, 05:30–08:00 pm
klagenfurter ensemble
theaterHALLE11, Messeplatz 1/11, 9020 Klagenfurt

from 08:30 pm kärnten.museum
Museumgasse 2, 9020 Klagenfurt


Welcome & Introduction

Felicitas Thun-Hohenstein, initiator of the Mahler Forum for Music and Society

Musical introduction to Ode to Joy

Morten Solvik, initiator of the Mahler Forum for Music and Society

Johann Friedrich Reichardt, An die Freude aus Lieder geselliger Freude (1796)

Ensemble of the Alma Mahler Musikverein conducted by Alja Klemenc
Kristina Presker (soprano), Irina Otto (mezzo-soprano), Igor Golob (tenor), Marijan Novak (baritone), Valeria Liaskovets (piano)

Ludwig van Beethoven, Die Ehre Gottes aus der Natur, Op. 48, No. 4 (1802)

Ensemble of the Alma Mahler Musikverein conducted by Alja Klemenc
Irina Otto (mezzo-soprano), Valeria Liaskovets (piano)

Deep in Silent Conversation—Bodies in Wonder

Keynote by Hannah Fitsch, neuroscientist

INTERMISSION

Alma Mahler, Ekstase (1924)

Ensemble of the Alma Mahler Musikverein conducted by Alja Klemenc
Irina Otto (mezzo-soprano), Valeria Liaskovets (piano)

What Makes Me Wonder…

Christine Scheucher in conversation with Hannah Fitsch and Markus Gönitzer

World premiere of Ode to ...

A composition by Ingi Kim for mezzo-soprano, soprano, tenor, baritone, and ensemble
Based on the text Ode to Joy by Friedrich Schiller, reinterpreted by Sarah Rinderer
Steven Vrbanec (tuba), Lukas Aldrian (percussion), Ivana Tripković (piano), Andi Pogačnik (violoncello), Nikola Meyer (contrabass), Kristina Presker (soprano), Irina Otto (mezzo-soprano), Igor Golob (tenor), Marijan Novak (baritone)

On Ode to ...

Morten Solvik in conversation with Sarah Rinderer and Ingi Kim

Repeated performance of Ode to ...



Hosted by Christine Scheucher

As the number of visitors is limited, please register beforehand at info@mahler-forum.org. Free admission.


Change of location

from 8:30 pm, kärnten.museum

Inauguration of the video installation Singing Revolution, rearranged for the kärnten.museum, by Anna Jermolaewa

Welcome

Peter Kaiser, governor and cultural delegate of the Federal State of Carinthia
Wolfgang Muchitsch, director, kärnten.museum

Talk on Peaceful Practices of Resistance

Anna Jermolaewa and Felicitas Thun-Hohenstein

Music & drinks

Saturday 08/07/2023, 11:00–01:00 pm
Gustav Mahler Composing Hut Maiernigg
Gustav-Mahler-Weg 10, 9073 Maiernigg
Meeting point: beginning of the footpath to the Composing Hut (Gustav-Mahler-Weg)

Welcome

Felicitas Thun-Hohenstein

Anna Jermolaewa Following the Footsteps of Leon Theremin

Performative guided tour to the Gustav Mahler Composing Hut

Medium: Theremin Orchestra

* to be performed after spending time in solitude at the Gustav Mahler Composing Hut
Pamelia Stickney

Presentation of the installation Lampenfieber

by Anna Jermolaewa

Artist Talk

Anna Jermolaewa and Felicitas Thun-Hohenstein


Visitors to the Composing Hut and passers-by are warmly invited to elicit sound from Lampenfieber by Anna Jermolaewa between July and October 2023.

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