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LOCATION:Deutsche Oper Berlin\, Berlin
SUMMARY:Music of Changes
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DESCRIPTION:«I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'
 m frightened of the old ones.» John Cage\nTogether with the Berlin-based 
 Zafraan Ensemble\, the musically playful and versatile theatre artist Thom
  Luz and Titus Engel\, conductor-in-residence at Deutsche Oper Berlin\, ha
 ve created an evening of musical theatre in which John Cage’s work can b
 e experienced in its entirety: from the surprisingly captivating percussio
 n pieces of his early years\, through the more contemplative thinning and 
 dissolution harmonies of his middle period\, to the sound meditations of h
 is late works\, shaped entirely by chance and the initiative of his own in
 terpretation. More than a century after his birth\, Cage’s work still co
 ntains one of the most radical musical answers to the most pressing questi
 on facing our society: How can we create a structure in which the most div
 erse sounds can coexist without one sound dominating\, controlling\, suppr
 essing\, reinterpreting or even obliterating another? In a performance spa
 ce somewhere between a concert hall and a musical gymnasium\, Cage’s com
 positions and concepts are performed and brought to life: The audience exp
 eriences how Cage’s sonic world order unfolds across the stage and trans
 forms the space. What begins like a classical concert evening reveals itse
 lf as a chance-orchestrated founding assembly of a future society that fun
 ctions entirely according to musical principles: Freedom is the space betw
 een five staves\, harmony is a form of order that also encompasses incompa
 tibility. The inclusion of chance as a structuring element becomes a compr
 ehensible and captivating encounter for the audience with the possibilitie
 s of non-deterministic decision-making: Each performance is a world premie
 re\; no two performances are exactly alike. Thus\, a novel portrait of the
  composer emerges – and a call to action for us\, the people of the pres
 ent: Engage with this resonance and forget the idea of humanity at the cen
 tre of power and meaning in creation.
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