Demonstration of the movie "Shtockhausen”
05.04.2011Assembly hall
Time: 10:00
Organizer: Department of Fine Arts (music sector) of the Ministry of Culture and Tourism
On the 5th of April at the Assembly hall of Museum Center was held the presentation of the film “World theatre of the Karlheinz Stockhausen” in the framework of IV International Festival of Contemporary Music named after K. Karaev. A film was made by West German Radio in 1984 devoted to Karlheinz Stockhausen, one of the 20th century’s most outstanding composers. At the presentation ceremony, Arina Kritskaya, a researcher into Stockhausen’s work, gave her thoughts on the composer’s life, work and the immortal art that he brought to the fund of world music. Other speakers noted that even in the 1960s they knew about his extraordinary talent and huge potential in the world of music and he was celebrated to the end of his days. Arina Kritskaya drew attention to the fact that the composer had spent more than 25 years of his life on the ‘Light’ series of seven operas, a masterpiece representing his last period of creativity. ‘Saturday’, the second opera in the avant-garde series, is introduced in the film. According to the dramaturgy of the series, Saturday is Lucifer’s day. Lucifer is one of the leading characters (with Eve and Michael) of both the series and the mystical and cosmic forces. In Stockhausen’s mythology, Lucifer proves the existence of ‘pure spirit’ and denies any kind of material existence.
