NEWS

Juillet 2022: L’heure bleue, Rétrospective 2021/22, Nouvelle Saison!

Open air concert
L’heure bleue – Dimitri Mallet
Saturday 9 July at 9.30 pm – Ellergronn (Esch-sur-Alzette)

We do not always actively perceive it, but the moment of nightfall is a special moment every day. If, at this very moment, which in itself is already so charming, a concert is additionally given in a special place, it can only be a beautiful evening – and that is exactly what United Instruments of Lucilin is offering on 9 July in the Ellergronn in Esch.

The curator Dimitiri Mallet, in collaboration with the Luxembourg architect Sergio Carvalho, has set up the project ‘L’heure bleue’, a museum in the middle of nature. The platform installed next to it will allow the audience to experience a sound programme on silence and deep listening on 9 July at 9.30 pm at nightfall. Come and enjoy this special moment with us, accompanied by a varied programme of music, including mythical works by John Cage.

Programme: Michael Gordon, Light is Calling (7′), Toshio Hosokawa, Melodia (11′), John Cage, Ryoanji for flute and percussion (10′), Pauline Oliveros, Sonic meditations (10′), John Cage, 4’33, Collective improvisation on the theme of silence and nature (25′).

With:
André Pons-Valdès (violin)
Sophie Deshayes (flute)
Frin Wolter (accordion)
Guy Frisch (percussion)

Total duration: 70 minutes

Reservation required at asbl.coopra@gmail.com

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Thank you for a great season 2021/22
Retrospection
Hosokawa, Sleep Laboratory, Lucilin au Carré …

The season is coming to an end and we look back at it with a smile:

Let me die before I wake – an encounter between music, text and movement (Théâtre des Capucins), the live-cinema O Táxi Nº 9297, All d’Déieren aus dem Bësch – the adaptation for the stage and in the Luxembourgish language of the tale Frérot et Sœurette by the Brothers Grimm, the ‘thinkspiel’ Kein Licht (Amsterdam) and much more! Not to forget the Lucilin Extended concert (Philharmonie), our Lucilin au Carré series and the video series Profiles in partnership with the CNA, …

It was magnificent and it is even more exciting to be able to announce that highlights of the 2021/22 season such as Toshio Hosokawa’s musical tale Deine Freunde aus der Ferne and Alexander Schubert’s phenomonal project Sleep Laboratory will be presented again next season!

Thank you to all the musicians of United Instruments of Lucilin!
Thank you to all the spectators!

An end is always a beginning: it is time to look forward to the new season!

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End of Season = New Season
New Season!
From teaser to implementation

United Instruments is delighted to reprise Albena Petrovic’s The dark at the Festival Spazio Musica in Cagliari, Italy and the ensemble will also be performing at the November Music Festival in Den Bosch, the Netherlands.

In Luxembourg, what was announced in October 2021 as Concert Teaser Esch2022 will finally become real in September 2022!
The big project 33,7 – a two-day festival of new music will take place from 17 to 18 September 2022 at the Kulturfabrik. The impressive figures alone are an invitation to come to the festival in any case:

> 2022 minutes = 33.7 hours of music

> more than 100 works by 62 composers representing the 122 nationalities of Esch/Alzette

> 33 projects, presenting contemporary music in a wide range of styles and aesthetics

– including projects already successfully presented during the 2021/22 season, such as the Spooky improvisations (Gudde Wëllen Culture Club), the live-cinema Finis Terrae (CAPE) and the piece Salome’s Dance (Lucilin au Carré) but also:

> 16 world premieres!

More information to come very soon.

We are looking forward to all that is to come, join us!