Colors of Drama
An instrumental sound theater for a cellist, a cello and a cello bow
What kind of images are created when a single graphically depicted dance movement becomes an entire dance choreography in the mind's eye?
What rhythm then pulsates in the viewer's body?
What musical expression arises in the inner ear?
How could the music sound if graphically depicted dancers jump out of their drawn role portraits and simply continue dancing in the viewer's imagination?
Lithographs by Erwin Lang / Haybach Verlag Vienna 1923 / Students of the dance school G. Wiesenthal
“Pictures, moving or still, have been the main inspiration for my musical work since my earliest childhood. The magic of theater and film has always exerted a great attraction on me. Having grown up with the artistic output of three generations of artists, it is natural for me to capture this strong inspiration from the visual and dramatic arts in sound. In the project called Colours Of Drama, the sources of inspiration are selected drawings and lithographs by my grandfather Erwin Lang. They are role portraits of dancers.” (Anna Lang)
The compositional influences in Anna Lang's music include the rhythms and timbres of jazz and improvised music, but the indestructible and valuable backgrounds of her classical instrumental studies are also incorporated. Above all, the solo program Colours of Drama expresses her creative passion to create something new and her enthusiasm for other art forms, for visual arts, dance and theater.
Imst (A)2022 / (tamt)”..... Lang's cello artistry produces some sounds that Johann Sebastian Bach would never have dared to dream of.... Anna Lang's cello - a pure delight.”
MUSIC:
Original composition by Anna Lang: Windestropfen
Original composition by Anna Lang: Pantanz
Preludio e Fantasia by G. Cassado
All pics (fall 2024) by Maria Frodl:
Anna Lang´s BIOGRAPHY: click here
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