The Hermetic Organ

“I’m going to pull out all the stops,” the artist promises, never to be understood merely metaphorically in the case of an organ. “It’s going to be intense, but I don’t think you expect anything else from me.” 

The organ was John Zorn’s first instrument. He himself often cites Lon Chaney, who starred in the silent film classic “The Phantom of the Opera”, as an original influence. Nevertheless, it was also a surprise for fans when he initiated a series of improvised solo organ concerts in churches in 2011. In the meantime, there have been concerts all over the world, which are also documented on ten CDs so far on Zorn’s label Tzadik. 

 

The music is breathtakingly beautiful and is characterised by the spiritual mood that only a huge pipe organ can create, a perfect outlet for Zorn’s dramatic sense of musical colour and contrast. Especially on the organ, we experience Zorn totally – huge blocks of sound, chords, clusters, counterpoints, drones, ostinatos, lyrical melodies and more – often all at once! 

Zorn confidently refers to the whole tradition of organ music and explicitly to Olivier Messiaen, Iannis Xenakis, György Ligeti, Johann Sebastian Bach, Charles Tournemire, i.e. the classical and especially French organ school, but also Charles Ives or exquisite curiosities like Korla Pandit, the “Godfather of Exotica” and of course “The Phantom of the Opera”. His concert in St. Pölten will be no exception. 

 

Apart from liturgy and repertoire, three remarkable personalities of the most diverse musical provenance work on the queen of instruments in the upcoming series “Orgel Experimentell” (organ experimental) and juxtapose the baroque interior of the St. Pölten Cathedral with contemporary culture.

 

Tagespass John Zorn EUR 70,-

-50 % für alle unter 26

 

Folgende Veranstaltungen sind im Kartenpaket enthalten:

Sacred Music for Two Guitars

Do. 04.07.2024, 20:00 Uhr

Ehemalige Synagoge St. Pölten

 

New Masada Quartet

Do. 04.07.2024, 21:30 Uhr

Bühne im Hof

 

The Hermetic Organ

Do. 04.07.2024, 23:00 Uhr

Dom zu St. Pölten

 

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