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Classical music of the highest level, contemporary dance and fi lm: that’s the KlaraFestival 2010. Born in 1860, Gustav Mahler was controversial in his own time, but is venerated today as one of the most important artists of the 19th century ‘fi n de siècle’. Merging tradition and innovation, he was a man of his age for whom humour and profound emotions could go hand in hand. For a full ten days, together with our partners Klara, BOZAR, Kaaitheater, De Munt /La Monnaie, Flagey and CINEMATEK, we will be exploring the legacy of this major composer through his relationship to his predecessors, contemporaries and successors. Mahler as a link between old and new, literally and figuratively. THE Mahler CONNECTION…
As you might expect from an international festival, this edition has much more in store for you. Among other things we are celebrating the 25th anniversary of Concerto Köln with two very different concerts, the arrival of a raft of top vocal talents such as Simone Kermes, the world creation of the latest dance performance of Claire Croizé, the presence of the world’s best orchestras accompanying rare talents like Maurizio Pollini and the world premiere of a new quartet that goes by the name of Maeterlinck. Add to this the mysterious Club K with Uri Caine, the great opening celebration ‘Big First Night’ with free concerts in the Brussels train stations and the Cologne Hauptbahnhof, the eighth edition of Living Room Music in Brussels’s Matonge district and in Koekelberg, and you’ll just know that KlaraFestival 2010 is not to be missed.
Moreover, everything can be followed non-stop on the radio via Klara and Musiq3, in the printed press via De Standaard and La Libre Belgique, abroad via the European Broadcasting Union and online on Facebook, Twitter, Flickr and at www.klarafestival.be.
This musical explosion is offered to you by the Festival van Vlaanderen Brussel!