Program Note

based on texts by William Shakespeare

You spotted snakes with double tongue, Thorny hedgehogs, be not seen;
 Newts and blindworms, do to wrong; Come not near our Fairy …

Excerpt from: William Shakespeare, A Midsummernight’s Dream
„Only what is not, is possible! Shakespeare’s work is a scream. Again and again. It moves and tears the curtain, which seperates us from the truth –
from the ‚unreality of reality, a promise that the rock of the world was founded securely on a fairy’s wing.’
(F. Scott Fitzgerald).
Music is such a scream.
 Shakespeare’s verses are such a scream. Sounds of emerging silence and deafness. What remains is the roaring of the cities and that, what is not… “
Helmut Oehring