Women and the Starry Night

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Women and the Starry Night brings together female composers, the poetry of the night, and the imagination of the starry sky in an intimate program that emphasizes subtlety, space, and chance. The concert will be performed by Wilma Pistorius (cello) and Anne Veinberg (piano/toy piano) at the Amstelkerk as part of the Sit Fast Concerts.

Women and the Starry Night

Dates

Wed 4 Mar20:00 - 21:30

Location

Amstelkerk, Amstelveld 10, 1017 JD Amsterdam

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Women and the Starry Night

Central to the piece is Wilma Pistorius' semi-interactive Secret Compartment (2022), made for toy pianos and music boxes. The work opens a playful ceremony of chance in which the audience and musicians together determine the direction of the music.

Around this center, a multifaceted universe of female perspectives and nocturnal resonances unfolds. Pistorius's cello works—the introspective Intermezzo and Parts II & III of ADA , inspired by Ada Lovelace, pioneer of computer programming and unexpected ancestor of contemporary space technology—form a lyrical connection between human thought and the cosmos.

Vanessa Lann's Seasons in the Glass Garden (two parts) illuminates a fragile, shimmering micro-universe, and Anne Veinberg's Untitled offers a moment of improvisatory clarity born of the present. Finally, Takemitsu's dreamy Orion is a soft shaft of light that opens up to the cosmos.