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Karen Asatrian

PRAYER WHEEL

Mass For Choir And JAZZ ENSEMBLE

BODENSEEFESTIVAL 2023 

German premiere

Tickets 32 | 27 | 24 €

Jazztime members €3 discount

CHOIR Vienna Philharmonia Chorus

CONDUCTOR Davorin Mori GESANG Rita Movsesian

PIANO Karen Asatrian TROMPETE Daniel Nosig

DOUBLE BASS Uli Langthaler SCHLAGZEUG Emil Krištof

The approximately 80-minute mass for choir and jazz ensemble, Prayer Wheel, is an extraordinary work. One could well understand it in the tradition of Carla Bley's and Michael Mantler's Jazz Composer's Orchestra, Keith Tippett's Centipede or Kamasi Washington. The violinist, pianist and composer Karén Asatrián, born in Yerevan (Armenia) in 1972, leads into an atmosphere mixed with world music. Occident and Orient as well as Buddhist prayer wheels seem to be present. The choir and the jazz ensemble open up a rousingly modern, almost massive approach into the early Christian liturgy along the Kyrie, Gloria, Credo, Sanctus and Agnus Dei. Regarding his work »Prayer Wheel«, which - after its premiere in 2015 and as part of the Salzburg Festival a year later - was able to reach a larger and enthusiastic audience, Karén Asatrián writes: »I wrote the mass on the basis of the Christian liturgy in Latin language, but understand it as an open and interdenominational work whose message is: humanity, tolerance and respect are due to all people, regardless of their origin, skin color or religion may be.«

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