Or Had It Become Colder And The Rainfall Heavier?
I went to see Heiner Goebbels's Stifter's Dinge last night, a piece I knew nothing about. Literally nothing because my girlfriend bought the tickets and wouldn't tell me what it was or where we were going. So I was slightly confused when we pitched up at the University of Westminster near Baker Street. I assumed it was a site specific installation but in fact they have converted one of the Department of Engineering's concrete labs into a performance space called P3.
Inspired by the work of Adalbert Stifter (no, me neither) the progamme notes accurately describes it as "a composition for five pianos with no pianists, a performance with no performers; a play with no actors." As always I lack the critical language for this sort of thing - there is a proper review here - but it is beautiful and menacing and you are unlikely to see anything else like it this year. It even made me slightly warm to Claude Lévi-Strauss.
Inspired by the work of Adalbert Stifter (no, me neither) the progamme notes accurately describes it as "a composition for five pianos with no pianists, a performance with no performers; a play with no actors." As always I lack the critical language for this sort of thing - there is a proper review here - but it is beautiful and menacing and you are unlikely to see anything else like it this year. It even made me slightly warm to Claude Lévi-Strauss.