Radio Concert Season
National Radio Orchestra - Live broadcast
Friday, 5 March 2010
, 19.00
Hecatomb is a work for orchestra whose composer, Dan Dediu, describes it as follows: ‘It is a work inspired by the Argentinean writer Julio Cortázar’s story called Maenads and uses the mythological attendants of Bacchus to transform a social event into an odious carnage. In short, the story is about the gradual distress of the audience during a symphonic concert – they are so beguiled by the beauty of music that they end up devouring the object of their admiration, namely the conductor and the orchestra. The music I composed is accessible and brings into the foreground an idealized world of sounds, obviously Hollywood influenced but which starts to ‘breach’ but eventually renders a logic of the monstrous, the beastial and the massacre.’
The National Radio Orchestra and conductor Horia Andreescu will perform on March 5th starting from 19.00 Dan Dediu’s Hecatomb as prologue to a mythical work, a symbol, a cult: Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 – Ode to Joy is considered the musical expression of freedom and has been adopted as hymn, played on classical instruments or by hard-rock bands.
You can also listen to Dediu and Beethoven live on Radio Romania Music starting from 19.00.
Maria Monica Bojin
Translated by Georgiana Mîndru
MA student, MTTLC, Bucharest University
Translated by Georgiana Mîndru
MA student, MTTLC, Bucharest University
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