The programme interweaves and interacts with a variety of countries, generations, creative practices and themes. What connections can we see between the past and the present, between different people or individuals and the cosmos? Is there a big gap between seriousness and play? "Correlations offers listeners a spectrum of experiences that are at the same time different and yet united into one whole, where the most important meta-task for the listeners becomes a journey towards understanding the structure of their own world.
The concert will feature a piece by the composer Arūnas Navakas, "Service Book" (2004). According to the composer himself, he is most interested in the intersection of styles and genres, tonality and atonality, the modern and the traditional. As musicologist Asta Pakarklytė describes Navakas's work, the composer is characterised by the "pristine" and unartificial gentleness and relaxed calmness of his sounds. Each of his works is like one broad, large consonance, sounding and forming in different shapes and forms.
Marius Baranauskas's HH Object (2023) will immerse listeners in unearthly sounds and images. The work reflects a cosmic object that is formed during the formative period of young stars and has a unique and striking symmetrical structure. The physical parameters and visual inspirations of this object are transformed into musical form, timbres, rhythms and other sonic elements. At the same time, as the composer states, it is a metaphor for birth, the beginning of the beginning and its unfolding.
The concert will also feature compositions written for the legendary American Kronos Quartet's Fifty for the Future project. Written in 2015 by Serbian composer Aleksandra Vrebalova, My Desert, My Rose is, according to the composer, like a journey of four people and characters. Starting in different places, after long searches and unexpected encounters, it ends in one space, time and language.
UNESCO award-winning Dutch composer Merlijn Twaalfhoven has over the years carried out music and theatre projects in different cities with different communities, in "hot spots" around the world or in nature. He now describes himself as a creative researcher of complex social issues. His concert piece Play (2016) brings together listeners and performers for a shared musical practice. Twaalfhoven says: "Throughout the ages (and now outside of concert halls), music has been the most effective means of bringing different people together to create, participate, play. Today our society is fragmented and divided. Can musicians contribute to creating new forms of connection and community?"
