A Song of the Earth
music by Theodorakis in the monastery ruins Frauenalb
the Nobel Prize, he received 1971 "for a poetry that with the action of a natural force fate and dreams of a continent gives life "- Neftali Ricardo Reyes Basoalto. All his life was the Chilean poet, who is known by his pen rather than Pablo Neruda, a fighter against fascism in Spain, Greece, in his home - followed by those in power and ostracized by the people revered and loved. The whole power of a restless life flowed in his monumental Poem cycle "Canto General", combines the 15 000 verses in which the poet suggests nature and history of the American continent, from prehistoric times to the present. And great as the Greek composer Mikis Theodorakis, his biography and his ideas for a brother Neruda, in the early 1970s, set to music parts of this epic poem, he had also found a life issue that in harmonious simple and rhythmically accented tone language the idea Neruda's sound in the form of a oratory awards. A special event was now to hear the oratorio at a midsummer evening in the walls of the monastery ruins Frauenalb, sung and played by the University Choir ("KIT Concert Choir") and an instrumental ensemble the University and the University of Karlsruhe under the so temperamental as precise direction of Nikolaus Indlekofer. The soloists were Viviane de Farias (alto) and Thomas Herberich (baritone) won, excellent voices, the vocal lines of the oratorio given range of expressions and the one most like without a microphone and speakers would have heard. The musicians celebrated a celebration of words and music, a brilliant combination that behave once idyllic, then joyfully and with powerful rhythms, the beauty of Latin America, the ironic, even cynical describes the suffering of this continent and imploring his undying hope and his fight and the audience in the cracked Monastery walls enthusiastic. The finale of the oratorio combines all the voices to a great song, an evocation of freedom, in which each line is reminiscent of the "Canto General", "can you cut all the flowers, but they will never dominate the spring." Claus-Dieter Hanauer
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