Tue 20.9.2016 at 19.00
Cable Factory, Submarine Cable Hall
Avanti!
Jaakko Kuusisto, conductor
Johanna Rusanen-Kartano, vocals
Jaakko Kortekangas, vocals
Petri Bäckström, vocals
Otaniemi Kaiku
Arto Vainio, bodybuilder
Pasi Heikura, plot
The welfare society is in a bad way, but could art help? Culture is being cut, but the art of care is being invested in. Can you play wellness music in a minor key, does it have to be harmless and simple? Or is it independent and free art that is welfare?
The concert begins with the diseases, vices and corpses. From the deathbed of a young artist, the story continues through lung disease to the Forest Man’s drinking song and the time when smoking was seen to have health benefits. The music takes a stand against gluttony and obesity, describes the hallucinations brought on by drugs, and mourns the death of a child who dies in his father’s arms when it is too far to get to a clinic. In the second half, the music will be care music. On stage, you’ll witness a urinary stone operation, hear how King George III reacts when he’s taken to a mental hospital, and enjoy some feel-good medieval church music. Among other things, the…
Music really is a cure for many ailments. According to researchers, music can boost intelligence, enhance learning and increase happiness. Music can also tempt you into bad ways and unhealthy habits. Avanti’s concert will provide cautionary tales, but also integrity and improvement. Come to an Avant concert and leave a better person!
Tickets including delivery 27,50 / 17,50 €, www.lippu.fi
PROGRAMME
Carl Nielsen: At the Beer of a Young Artist op. 58
Giuseppe Verdi: Traviata. Act lll, prelude
Eduard Hermes: Forest Man’s Drinking Song
Francis Poulenc: Banalités, No 2, Hôtel
Kirmo Lintinen: Fitness opera, Leon aria
René Leibowitz: Marihuana variations non sériéuses
Franz Schubert: Erlkönig
W.A.Mozart: Bastien and Bastienne, aria “Diggi, Daggi, Shurry, Murry…”
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Peter Maxwell Davies: Eight songs for a mad king, No. 1, The Sentry
Hildegard von Bingen: Ovirtus Sapientiae
Marain Marais: Urolithotomy
Pyotr Tchaikovsky: Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy
Sean Beeson: Caring Music
W.A.Mozart: Symphony no 34 in C major, K 338 Allegro vivace, Andante di molto (piu tosto allegretto), Finale: Allegro vivace
