re:organ BROKEN DANCES

There are hardly any stylistic connections between Jehan Alain and Dror Feiler, but there are certainly deeper, inner connections. Both view music not as a formal game or aesthetic decoration, but as an existential practice marked by seriousness and urgency.

Dror Feiler’s music works with extremes of volume, duration, and density, often pushing the limits of what is bearable. It deliberately rejects traditional forms of development, expression, or beauty, instead creating situations of overwhelming intensity, stagnation, and acoustic pressure. Here, music does not “tell a story”—it confronts.

Jehan Alain’s music appears at once archaic and modern, spiritual and physical, improvisational and highly concentrated. His Trois Danses follow an existential inner dramaturgy of life, loss, and struggle. Ostinatos, motoric patterns, irregular accents, and almost trance-like repetitions characterize a music that is less reminiscent of traditional organ aesthetics than of dance and ritual, and is highly physically experiential.

Performers:
Erik Drescher, glissando
flute; Maximilian Schnaus, organ

Program:
Works by Jehan Alain, Dror Feiler
Music genre/style: Archaic modernism, avant-garde, noise, world premieres
Special features/notes: Ear protection available at the box office

Tickets:
€10, reduced €5 plus fees online via Eventim and at the box office starting at 6:00 PM.

Organizer:
Evangelical Parish of Weinberg in cooperation with Kultur Büro Elisabeth
 

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