Lil Lacy: Concert for a Space and Time

Concert for a Space and Time is a 60 min. alternative Christmas concert written for choir and 2 strings site specifically, exploring the space and atmosphere of a shopping and congress center.

First the piece focuses on the material functions and concrete aspects of the place; the stairs, the escalators, the floor….
Then it moves into the material; wood, steel, glass…
Then deeper into the consistency of the material warm, cold, hard, soft and beyond to the time before the material; the time before the glass became glass; into the smaller components such as silica, limestone and quartz sand… and on to the sound of the waves rolling over the sand…
At one point the sound of the choir is intended to make the air in the passage of the center vibrate with beatings and to let the breeze lift the awareness from the material around of us to the material inside of us, and levitate the experience to energy, love and connectedness across time, life and death.
In letting go there will be room for new life, new light and new appreciation.

Composition and idea: Lil Lacy
Libretto: Sonja Ferdinand and Lil Lacy

Performance November 24, 2024, at 15:00
In The Scandinavian Center, Aarhus, Denmark
Choir: Ars Nova and ENSEMBLE EDGE
Ensemble: Århus Sinfonietta
Conductor: Mathias Skaarup Sørensen

Produced by Lil Lacy Music, AUT, ENSEMBLE EDGE, Ars Nova Copenhagen and Århus Sinfonietta in collaboration
Supported by The Danish Arts Foundation, KODA Kultur, The William Demant Foundation, Den Jyske Kunstfond, Korsangernes Fællesråd and GENSTART by EditionS, Danish Composers’ Society and Art Music Denmark