Happening: Midnight concert 'The Blue Hour'
The kaleidoscopic song cycle The Blue Hour brings our introspective meanderings to an end around midnight. Five leading female composers - Rachel Grimes, Angélica Negrón, Shara Nova, Caroline Shaw and Sarah Kirkland Snider - set to work on Carolyn Forché's poignant poetry. The work reduces memories, loss and love into an intimate portrait of a single life, in which the personal provides a lens for the universal. With influences ranging from Renaissance polyphony to modern sound experiments, The Blue Hour illuminates how we deal with life's uncontrollable realities. At this late hour, when silence and sound merge, The Blue Hour asks you to close your eyes one more time.
This concert is part of the Happening 2026. Want to experience the whole event? Order your day pass here.
Programme
Grimes, Negrón, Nova, Shaw en Kirkland Snider The Blue Hour
Bella Adamova
mezzo soprano
Lisanne Soeterbroek
concert master
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