The headline (In memory of Tschernobyl 26.4.1986) for choir (2002)

Dauer: 12 minutes

Besetzung: six voices a capella (S A T T B B)

Textdichter: Ernst Moritz Arndt und diverse Zeitungstexte

Vorwort: ...the first newspaper reports and state-official announcements immediately after the reactor accident in Ukrainian Chernobyl in respect with a three-verse evening song become 'The day now has passed and darkly there sleeps the world' of the romantic writer Ernst Moritz Arndt (26.12.1769-29.01.1860). The naive romantic tone appears after the aggressive professionalism of the newspaper news while sounding in the first stanza still like a foreign body, these circumstances turn round increasingly: the official announcements become increasingly empty words, - the message of the romantic poem with his child faith in the 'father' as a God prevailing on top becomes against it the real 'news'


Widmung: dedicated to the 'Singer Pur' ensemble
Anmerkungen: Ironic, aggressive work, can also be staged in the form if musical theatre with 'newspapers' as percussion instruments of each singer

Uraufführung: 09.04.2006, Osterholz-Scharmbeck bei Bremen
Uraufführung Interpreten: Singer Pur ensemble, as part of the Niedersächsischen Music Days 2005

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