Campus-Project 2023: Afghanistan & Iran

»Beethoven Palimpsest« 
Composition by Vivan & Ketan Bhatti, premiere

»Andoh az marz megozarad« (»Suffering Transcends Borders«)
Lyrics by Mariam Meetra/Comprovisation* by Mona Matbou Riahi

»Maa shodane nou be nou« (»The New We«) 
Lyrics and Composition by Cymin Samawatie, premiere of the arrangement

»Baad maa ra ba khood khaahad burd« (»The Wind Will Blow As Away«) 
Lyrics by Forough Farrokhzad/Comprovisation* by Taiko Saito

»Hasrat« (»Desire«)
Lyrics by Shafiqa Khpalwak/Comprovisation* by Susanne Fröhlich

»Azadi Sedaje tust« (»Freedom is Your Voice«)
Lyrics by Mariam Meetra/Composition by Cymin Samawatie, premiere

»De Boodai Kachkool« (»The Begging Bowl of an Old Woman«)
Lyrics by Parveen Malal/Comprovisation* by Asia Mehrabi & Cymin Samawatie
Vocals: Asia Mehrabi 

»Anar Anar« (»Pomegranate«)
Afghan Trad., arr. by Mohammad Qambar Nawshad & Tiago Moreira da Silva, premiere of the arrangement

»Sar Zamine Man« (»My Country«)
Armenian Trad., arr. by Mohammad Qambar Nawshad & Tiago Moreira da Silva, premiere of the arrangement

»Watan Janat Neshan« (»My Homeland as Paradise«)
Afghan Trad., arr. by Mohammad Qambar Nawshad, premiere of the arrangement

»Die Kraft der Stille« (»The Power of Silence«)
Comprovisation by Cymin Samawatie

Musicians in Afghanistan face threats and persecution. The Afghanistan National Institute of Music left Kabul when the Taliban came to power and fled into exile in Portugal. With the transtraditional Trickster Orchestra under the direction of the German-Iranian conductor, composer and singer Cymin Samawatie and members of the Bundesjugendorchester, a musical exchange is taking place across borders. In keeping with the motto »tantôt libre tantôt recherchée« (»partly free, partly bound«), which Beethoven prefaced his Große Fuge (op. 133), fixed (composed) and loose (improvised) elements shake hands on this evening.

*Comprovisation means that the pieces are improvised in the group and certain musical sequences and sounds, similar to a composition, are concretised and then put on paper.