“Vers l'ouvert,” the opening program, leads you into the poetry of the pre-linguistic realm through interwoven texts and music. Daniel Glaus, who has written a new harp quintet for the Camerata Variabile, will repeatedly give their guest—the poet Jean-Christophe Meyer—space within his work to share poems he has written specifically for this piece. Appropriately for the season, these poems transport you to a wintry world. During a short conversation in the second half of the program, Meyer, using his own poem "Schneefläckel-Litànèi" or "Litanie du flocon de neige" (read in French and Alsatian), offers insights into how the content of his poem changes for him when he switches languages. The nonet by the Englishman Arnold Bax is a mysteriously meandering work. It almost sounds as if he were reaching out across the Channel to Paul de Wailly and GermaineTailleferre, whose works are also on the program. As a precursor to the Francophone flavor of the evening, the evening will be opened by a Quintet by Jean Françaix, a colorful, relatively short work of Neoclassicism: Musique pour faire plaisir.
Tickets are CHF 45 for adults and free for youths and students.

Website
camerata-variabile.ch/vers-l-ouvert/

Where
Dorfkirche St. Arbogast
Kirchplatz 1
4132 Muttenz

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