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The Traveling Breath • VAN Magazine
A woman with narrow shoulders and long grey hair steps up to the microphone. In the bluish stage light, she looks pensive and fragile. Which makes the power of her voice all the more surprising as she releases an astonishing variety of sounds into the hall: humming, whirring, sighing; clacking glottal stops, throaty chirps, nasal […]
Michael Betteridge on co-creation and rejecting posterity • VAN Magazine
Michael Betteridge on why co-creation rather than individual composition is at the heart of his practice, the difference between big “C” and little “C” composers, and whether the future of opera is as precarious as people think.
The Space of Beauty • VAN Magazine
The premiere of Klaus Lang’s “tönendes licht” did not take place quite as anticipated. Composed for organ and spatially distributed orchestra, the work was due to be performed at St. Stephen’s cathedral, Vienna, in November 2020. In the end, due to ongoing restrictions brought on by the pandemic, the four sections of the orchestra, spread […]