"Moon Child" for women's choir and wind instrument by Mike Svoboda (music) and Anne-May Krüger (text) to be premiered

After our last collaboration, the opera Adam & Eva, a rather biggish project to say the least, Mike Svoboda and I have cooked up something new: Moon Child is a rather compact piece of 16 min for the SWR Vokalensemble and Ensemble Ascolta. Even though the neighbouring pieces in the program in which it will be premiered, e.g. the Berliner Requiem by Kurt Weill and Bertolt Brecht, puts the piece in more than good company, we wanted to contrast the atrocities of war that Weill/Brecht illustrate in their work for men’s choir and wind orchestra. Mike therefore entrusted Moon Child to the women’s choir (in one performance plus a children’s choir) and put to music a poem of mine in which I tried to (onomato-)poetically depict the very beginning of human life. Not in order to negate that atrocities happen, but to keep believing that every single human being has the power to change things for the better.

Moon Child will see its premiere under the musical direction of Benjamin Goodson on July 3rd in Schwäbisch Gmünd/D. Further performances will take place at Liederhalle Stuttgart, Motette Tübingen and the Festival Rheinvokal Koblenz’.