IfM | The Freedom Songs Samstag, 8. Juli 2023, 19:00 Uhr

Mit Kompositionen des niederländischen Komponisten Jacob Ter Veldhuis (* 14. November 1951), bekannt unter dem Künstlernamen Jacob TV.

The Freedom Songs is an ode to freedom, composed 75 years after the liberation from fascism in Europe, commissioned by Fulcrum Point New Music Project Chicago with financial support from the FPA.

Living in a postwar western society, freedom seems obvious. The need for freedom seems to be met today, while at the same time, individual freedom and privacy is under threat. So what is freedom? According to the German philosopher Peter Sloterdijk, ‘freedom is hard to define, since over time freedom has taken on many different forms’. Already in antiquity, there is a notion of freedom, even inner freedom, where ‘freedom is the property of man’s own self, independent of the world’, as the Greek philosopher Epictetus argued. And the Buddha said: ‘No one can rule us inwardly, when we know this, we become free’. In 1941, when Nazi Germany had already occupied large parts of Europe, President Franklin D. Roosevelt introduced 4 fundamental freedoms: Freedom of speech and expression, freedom to worship God in his own way, freedom from want and freedom from fear. His words, along with poems and quotes from politicians, writers, poets and philosophers like the Buddha, Malcom X, Hegel, Yeats and Martin Luther King, were the inspiration to compose The Freedom Songs. And Music? Music expresses freedom pur sang, it celebrates life, free of regulations…

Mitwirkende:

Deborah Carter, Gesang
Richard Gonzalez, Trompete
Johannes Claassen, Schlagzeug
Tim Neckermann, E-Gitarre
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