For their concert, conductor Elena Schwarz and the Basel Sinfonietta have crafted a powerful narrative. It explores traumatic experiences and how to overcome them—presented by women, but not necessarily solely from a female perspective. Joana Aderi works as a composer and music therapist, including in psychiatric hospitals and prisons. Having grown up in a remote boarding school in central Switzerland, the connection between mental illness and music is central to her work. Cassandra Miller's "I cannot love without trembling" also brings this thematic connection to life. The title of the viola concerto, composed in 2022 and performed with Geneviève Strosser, who teaches in Basel, quotes a line from a letter by the French-Jewish philosopher and social revolutionary Simone Weil: "Human existence is such a fragile thing and exposed to such dangers that I cannot love without trembling." Israeli artist Sivan Eldar's 2019 piece, "Una mujer derramada" ("A woman spilled"), explores the power of giving voice to a woman who has been buried and battered. The piece describes her as "merging into many and yet moving as a single entity." The text is by singer, performer, and poet Amyra León, who also performs the solo part. Sara Glojnarić's "sugarcoating #4" unleashes an extraordinary surge of power and energy. The Croatian-born musician is a rising star. At the 2024 Donaueschingen Music Festival, Glojnarić was awarded the SWR Symphony Orchestra Prize. Her four-part "Sugarcoating" cycle concludes with "sugarcoating #4" from 2022. It takes sonic fetishes from pop music to their extreme, creating a high-energy sensory overload.
Tickets are CHF 34-76 for adults CHF 34-39 for students under 25, and CHF 5 for kids up to age 12.

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baselsinfonietta.ch/de/konzerte/trauma-heilung

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Stadtcasino Basel
Konzertgasse 1
4051 Basel

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