Name: VOGP Music of survival
Start: 2018-03-02T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2018-03-02T00:00:00.000Z
Location: Union Hall

Artist

Admin

Conductor

Karmina Šilec

Carmina Slovenica

Juan Sebastián Cáceres Lara

VOGP Music of survival

Maribor

Slovenia

Union Hall

Public

Concert

Approved

Bass

Instrumentalist

Pianist

Violinist

Cellist

Violist

Flutist

Clarinetist

Guitarist

Organist

Percussionist

hornist

Oboist

Bassoonist

Trumpeter

Contrabassist

Trombonist

Harper

Saxophonist

Harpsichordist

Bassist

Accordionist

Tuba Player

Recorder Player

Lutenist

Tenor Violinist

Timpani

Mandoline Player

Baroque Flutist

Baroque Oboist

Baroque Trumpetist

Violino Piccolo Player

Viola da gamba

Musette de cour Player

Viola Pomposa Player

Archlutenist

Vibraphonist

Cornettist

Viola d’amore Player

Theorbist

Composer

Stage director

Librettist

Set designer

Costume designer

Choreographer

Lighting designer

Dancer

Actor

Chorus master

Video designer

Dramaturge

Translator

Sound designer

Repetiteur

Makeup artist

Executive producer

Hairstylist

Other

Stage Manager

Choir

Orchestra

Poet

Vocal coach

Teacher

Photographer

Broadcasting

Illustrator

Writer

Writing and performance

Chorus Director

Wig & Makeup Designer

Orchestra Operations

Extra

Bass-baritone

Singer

Tenor

Baritone

Soprano

Countertenor

Contralto

Mezzo-soprano

Spoken

Child vocalist

Silent

Alto

Continuo

VOGP Music of survival: Concert Various

A village in Sumatra during WW2. Women of various nationalities have been interned without explanation: The Dutch, British, Irish, Portuguese, Chinese, Australian … Twenty nationalities of all social classes are forced to bow to the Japanese flag. The internees are coping with torture, hard work, sickness and expanding death ─ typhoid fever, dysentery, malaria, lice, fleas, scabies, hunger and unbearable heat kill over one third of them.

In the barrack 9, with the purpose of encouraging the internees, musician Norah Chambers and missionary Margaret Dryburgh establish a vocal orchestra. They fear for their lives according to a strict Japanese prohibition of any gatherings, social as well as religious. Every concert implying a risk the orchestra secretly rehearses in four voice groups, and all together in the Dutch kitchen at night. The music brings motivation and hope although the number of women steadily decreases.

The internees get charmed by long loved music bringing out powerful memories. Their thoughts fly away from isolation, hunger, fear, loneliness and smelly dirt, they recollect peace, order, beauty and joy of their "previous" lives. The survivors testify there were three things that helped them survive ─ love of God, sunrises and sunsets, and the transcendent singing of the vocal orchestra.

The VOGP project reflects the moments in lives of women facing suffering and death. It highlights the idea of hope, religion and beauty echoing from the music produced by the female vocal orchestra in times of violence in the middle of an unexpected tropical-forest drama.

Wishing to understand VOGP explores the calming and socially necessary elements in music that gains the power to take over control in the worst possible torture. It tries to catch women’s intimate and collective emotions within those painful moments, reflecting a devotion to preciously supporting music.

VOGP sets music against suffering. Music as a testament. Music as a dehumanisation denial. Music as a symbol of hope.

In a concert hall, the audience comfortably follow the story of women’s suffering ─ yet another mythicized human tragedy, one more WW2 topography of pain, a reflexion of historical memory, spirituality, morals and truth. Recapturing the aestheticized trauma helps to get to understand brutality, volatility and injustice. And music remains in the very core of the general meaning on the edge of disaster.

VOGP expresses the complex relation between music, trauma, mourning and legacy, to discuss the reasons for music to become a universal symbol in suffering and the ultimate sanctuary in despair. It has the power to overwhelm all senses, one’s body and soul, to shift the tormented to some other world. It can possibly rule over death.

VOGP puts music in self-reflecting frame: it presents its own representation, through its impact it illustrates its own exceeding the social and rational structure.

Music stands for the weak, so VOGP leads to consideration and warning: a vocal orchestra in Palembang camp (Indonesia), choirs and an orchestra in Westerbork camp (The Netherlands), internees marching with music in Sachsenhausen camp (Germany), Goldov ensemble in Treblinka camp (Poland), a prison orchestra in Auschwitz camp (Germany), concerts in Drancy camp (France), puppetry performances with women’s a cappella singing in Kaiserwald camp (Latvia) … internees in Bloemfountain camp (South Africa), first prisoners of war in Norman Cross (Great Britain), internees in Guantanamo (Cuba), Ra's al-'Ayn (Turkey), Jasenovac (Croatia), Moor River (Australia), Santiago (Chile), Slocan (Canada), Batangas (Philippines), Perm (Russia), Rosario (Argentina), Bački Jarak (ex Yugoslavia), Manznar, (USA), Busan (South Korea), Krasnoyarsk (Russia), Hoeryong (South Korea), Shark Island (Namibia), nowadays in Argun (Chechen Republic) …

Music: J. S. Bach, J. Brahms, L. van Beethoven, A. Dvořák, F. Chopin, M. Ravel and others in arrangements by internments Margaret Dryburgh in Norah Chambers

English

VOGP Music of survival by Various, Dv. 02 Març 2018, De (2018/2018), Director musical Karmina Šilec, Union Hall, Maribor, Slovenia

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