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Donnerstag aus Licht

January 01, 1970

Donnerstag aus Licht (Thursday from Light) is an opera by Karlheinz Stockhausen in a greeting, three acts, and a farewell, and was the first of seven to be composed for the opera cycle Licht: die sieben Tage der Woche (Light: The Seven Days of the Week). It was written between 1977 and 1980, with a libretto by the composer.

Donnerstag aus Licht
Opera by Karlheinz Stockhausen
Stockhausen rehearsing Michaels Heimkehr in 1980
LibrettistStockhausen
LanguageGerman
Premiere
March 15, 1981 (1981-03-15)
La Scala, Milan
Karlheinz Stockhausens grave with the score to LICHT .

Its second act, Michaels Reise um die Erde (Michael's Journey Around the Earth), has been performed and recorded individually.

History edit

Donnerstag was given its staged premiere on 15 March 1981 by the La Scala Opera in the Teatro alla Scala in Milan, but without the third act, which had to be omitted due to a strike by the opera chorus of La Scala. They had demanded soloists' bonuses because of one brief passage in act 3, and had been turned down by the management. Further performances without the third act followed on 18, 21, 24, and 27 March. An agreement was finally reached and the complete opera was finally performed on 3 April, with two further performances on 5 and 7 April.[1] The stage direction was by Luca Ronconi, with costume and stage design by Gae Aulenti. Scenic realisation was by Giorgio Cristini, lighting by Vannio Vanni, light compositions (act 3) by Mary Bauermeister. Péter Eötvös conducted, and played the Hammond organ in act 3, scene 2. Karlheinz Stockhausen was the sound projectionist.

On 19 December 1981, Donnerstag was awarded the Premio Critica Musicale F. Abbiati for "best new work of contemporary music".[2]

A second staging was given by the Royal Opera, Covent Garden in London, on 16, 18, 20, 24, and 26 September 1985. The stage direction was by Michael Bogdanov, designed by Mari Bjornson, lighting and light compositions by Chris Ellis. Péter Eötvös conducted, and Stockhausen was the sound projectionist.

The second act, Michaels Reise um die Erde (Michael's Journey Around the Earth) was staged separately in 2008, by Carlus Padrissa [es] of La Fura dels Baus, with stage direction by Roland Olbeter. It was performed by Marco Blaauw (trumpet), Nicola Jürgensen (basset horn), and musikFabrik, directed by Peter Rundel. Video was by Franc Aleu, dramaturgy by Thomas Ulrich, lighting by Frank Sobotta, and sound direction by Paul Jeukendrup. This was initially a production of the Wiener Taschenoper in collaboration with the Wiener Festwochen. In 2013, this production was revived for three performances at Avery Fisher Hall in New York as part of the Lincoln Center Festival, beginning appropriately on Thursday, 18 July.[3]

A third production, by the American director Lydia Steier (dramaturgy: Pavel B. Jiracek), opened at the Basel Opera on 25 June 2016, with sets designed by Barbara Ehnes, costumes by Ursula Kudrna, and video effects by Chris Kondek. Paul Hübner performed the trumpeter-Michael, with Peter Tantsits, tenor, as the singer-Michael. Soprano Anu Komsi sang the part of the Mother, and bass Michael Leibundgut sang the Father.

Another production took place from 15 November to 19 November 2018 at the Opéra-Comique in Paris with Maxime Pascal as music director and staging by Benjamin Lazar. It was performed by Damien Bigourdan and Safir Behloul (both Michael as tenor), Henri Deléger (Michael as trumpeter), Iris Zerdoud (Eve as basset hornist), and Le Balcon (orchestra).[4]

Donnerstag is an opera for 14 performers (3 voices, 8 instrumentalists, 3 dancers) plus a choir, an orchestra, and tapes. It was composed between 1977 and 1980. In the larger context of Licht, Thursday is Michael's day. Thursday's exoteric (primary) colour is bright blue, and its esoteric (secondary) colours are purple and violet.[5][6] Thursday is also the day of plants.[7]

Roles edit

Roles, performer, premiere casts
Role Performer Premiere cast (La Scala, 1981) London cast (1985) Basel cast (2016)
Michael tenor Robert Gambill (act 1), Paul Sperry (act 3) Julian Pike (Frieder Lang on 18 September) Peter Tantsits (act 1), Rolf Romei (act 3)
Michael trumpeter Markus Stockhausen Markus Stockhausen Paul Hübner
Michael dancer Michèle Noiret Michèle Noiret Emmanuelle Grach
Eve soprano Annette Meriweather Annette Meriweather Anu Komsi
Eve basset horn Suzanne Stephens Suzanne Stephens Merve Kazokoğlu
Eve dancer Elizabeth Clarke Elisabeth Clarke Evelyn Angela Gugolz
Lucifer bass Matthias Hölle Nicholas Isherwood Michael Leibundgut
Lucifer trombonist Mark Tezak Michael Svoboda Stephen Menotti
Lucifer dancer-mime Alain Louafi Alain Louafi Eric Lamb
Michael's Accompanist pianist Majella Stockhausen Majella Stockhausen Ansi Verwey
Invisible Choirs choir WDR choir, Karlheinz Stockhausen, conductor (16-track recording) WDR Choir, Stockhausen, conductor (16-track recording) WDR Choir, Stockhausen, conductor (16-track recording)
Clownesque Pair of Swallows clarinetists (2nd doubles basset horn) Alain Damiens, Michel Arrignon David Smeyers, Beate Zelinsky Innhyuck Cho, Markus Forrer
Two Boys soprano saxophonists Hugo Read, Simon Stockhausen Simon Stockhausen Emilie Chabrol, Romain Chaumont
Old Woman actress Elena Pantano
Messenger tenor Giovanni Mastino
Penguins at the South Pole (act 2) orchestra Orchestra of the Teatro alla Scala, Péter Eötvös, conductor Orchestra of the Royal Opera, Covent Garden, Péter Eötvös, conductor Sinfonieorchester Basel, Titus Engel, conductor
Heavenly Choirs and Orchestra (act 3) choir and orchestra Orchestra and Choir of the Teatro alla Scala, Péter Eötvös, conductor Orchestra and Choir of the Royal Opera, Covent Garden, Péter Eötvös, conductor Chor des Theater Basel; Studierende der Hochschule für Musik FHNW/Musik-Akademie Basel; Sinfonieorchester Basel, Titus Engel, conductor

Synopsis edit

 
Archangel Michael, Cologne Cathedral, north portal

The time and place are universal.

Donnerstags-Gruß edit

The Thursday Greeting is performed in the foyer as the audience is arriving.

Act 1: Michaels Jugend edit

The first act consists of three scenes that follow one another without a break.

Scene 1: Kindheit edit

In "Childhood" Michael, a son of poor parents, demonstrates exceptional gifts. His father, a schoolteacher, teaches him to pray, hunt, shoot, and perform in theatre. From his mother he learns singing and merry-making, dancing—and seduction. His parents quarrel, and a younger brother, Hermannchen, dies in infancy. The mother goes mad, attempts suicide, and is hospitalised. The father turns to drink, and goes off to war.

Scene 2: Mondeva edit

In the forest, Michael encounters Mondeva (Moon-Eve), half woman, half bird, and falls in love with her. As he discovers how to control her music through erotic play, in a parallel scene Michael's mother is being killed by a doctor in an asylum.

Scene 3: Examen edit

Michael undergoes a triple admission examination to the conservatory. First as a singer, then as a trumpeter, and finally as a dancer, he amazes the jury, who enthusiastically admit him.

Act 2: Michaels Reise um die Erde edit

In the second act, Michael undertakes a journey around the world in what is essentially a trumpet concerto with orchestra, performed in a huge rotating globe set against a starry firmament. There are seven "stations" along the way, at each of which the music takes on colour from the locale: Germany, New York, Japan, Bali, India, Central Africa, and Jerusalem. Michael's formula gradually evolves from a simple beginning form to increasingly florid extravagance, finally shattering into incoherent fragments in stations 5 and 6. When he reaches Central Africa, Michael hears a distant basset horn, and orders the globe to stop turning. Michael commands the earth to rotate in reverse as the seventh station, Jerusalem, is reached, and he begins a new process of rehabilitation in a therapeutic conversation with a double-bass player. Mondeva appears, and they perform a duet in which their melodic formulas merge and intertwine until each plays the other's formula. Two clownish clarinet players, costumed as a pair of swallows, mock and—together with the orchestral low brass, an emblem of Lucifer—"crucify" him, after which the act ends with a musical "ascension" in which the sounds of the trumpet and basset horn circle around until they are united in a trill.[8][9])

Act 3: Michaels Heimkehr edit

In the third act Michael—in his threefold manifestation as tenor, trumpeter, and dancer—returns to his celestial home.

Scene 1: Festival edit

 
Michael fighting the Dragon (Bonn University, main entrance)

As the invisible choirs sing all around, he is welcomed by Eve—also in threefold form as soprano, basset hornist, and dancer—five choirs (delegates from various parts of the Michael Universe), five orchestral groups, and a background string orchestra.[10]

  • "Meditation". Eve presents Michael with a gift of three plants, and another of three compositions of light:
  • "First Light Composition: Chaos out of Colours"
  • "Second Light Composition: Suns out of Chaos"
  • "Third Light Composition: Chaos from Colours"
    • Part 1: "Moons"
    • Part 2: "Moons and Glassy Images"
    • Part 3: "Starry Sky". The signs of the Zodiac appear, one after another, from Aquarius to Capricorn. Suddenly, an old lady steps forward and demands, "Why don't you all come home!" The choirs answer her: "There is no 'home'. Even angels are always on the move". Eve presents Michael with a final gift, a terrestrial globe as a souvenir of his journey around the earth. Lucifer appears, first as a gremlin who springs out of the globe and presents Michael with his own, smaller blue globe. Michael passes it around to the choir, which infuriates the gremlin, who makes threatening gestures and summons assistance.
  • "Michael's Battle with the Dragon". Lucifer reappears in a second form, as a tap-dancing trombonist dressed as a torero with a black cape and hat, and the gremlin turns into a dragon. Michael gives battle and the dragon, wounded many times, sinks to the ground. Michael borrows the conductor's long baton to deliver the coup de grâce. The dragon tries one last time to rise, but falls on his belly. The trombonist, too, staggers and falls on his back, legs in the air.
  • "Boys' Duet", played by two angelic soprano saxophonists.
  • "Argument". A messenger arrives to announce that Lucifer is once again causing trouble. Lucifer reappears, now in triple form as a bass singer, a trombonist, and a dancer-mime, and taunts Michael, who dismisses him: "You have lost. You have corrupted your wisdom through your bitter irony, poisonous sarcasm now fills your heart. ... You are no longer immortal, Lucifer! ... Can't you just once allow us to celebrate a festival in peace?" Lucifer can only go away muttering in disgust, "You fool! You fool!" as the scene ends.

Scene 2: Vision edit

In a process of 15 cyclical transpositions, Michael explains (in threefold appearance as singer, trumpeter, and dancer), his experience and opposition to Lucifer.

Donnerstags-Abschied edit

 
Archangel Michael as trumpeter (Christuskirche, Mannheim)

The Thursday Farewell (also called "Michael's Farewell") is performed outside the opera house following the performance, by five trumpeters who begin as the last scene, Vision, is concluding. They are costumed as Michael and positioned on the rooftops or on balconies surrounding the square, floodlit like statues on a tower. They each repeat one segment of the Michael formula, with long pauses between repetitions, for about 30 minutes, withdrawing at the end in the order in which their respective segments occur in the formula.[11]

Unsichtbare Chöre edit

The Invisible Choirs are played back in the theatre over eight channels throughout most of act 1, and again in act 3, scene 1, and is composed in such a way that they could never be sung by a choir live, in part because there are as many as 180 separate voices, and in part because of the demands of polyphonic synchronicity, exactness of intonation, and dynamic balance.[12] There are three texts sung in Hebrew ("Judgement Day" from The Ascent of Moses, "The End of Time" from the Apocalypse of Baruch, and a Hymn of Praise, "The Heavens Rejoice", from the Book of Leviticus), as well as a different passage from "The End of Time", sung in German.[13]

Critical reception edit

The staged premiere of Donnerstag was very well received in Italy, where it was awarded the Italian Music Critics' Prize for best new work, in December 1981. The German press reception, on the other hand, was harsh and often ad hominem.[14] The Covent Garden production in 1985 also provoked contrary points of view in the press, in part divided over the question of the music versus the theatrical conception. Paul Griffiths, writing in the Times, for example, found that "it contains much quite extraordinary music" but "the opera never for a moment works as the mystic revelation it pretends to be. ... It is very wondrous to contemplate—wondrous, that is, when it is not just silly".[15] Andrew Porter, on the contrary, found the "variety of forces, forms, textures, and matter ... a strength and a pleasure", and the "somewhat ramshackle construction saves the work from solemn pretentiousness. There's even a playful quality about much of it, although its essential seriousness is not in doubt and inner musical integrity is not compromised".[16] Porter concludes,

hearing and seeing the drama is an engrossing, enjoyable, and elevating adventure. Ear, mind, and spirit are engaged. And, as I suggested, moments of jokiness, naïveté—silliness, even—save the work from being unbearably solemn: Stockhausen-Sarastro has a vein of Papageno in him. There is a great deal to listen to and to watch. Some of the spans, especially in the last scene, are traversed slowly. But things happen; the music doesn't fall into simplistic repetitions or numbing stasis. There are counterpoints to follow. There are supple melodies and rich harmonies. There are wonderful sounds—new and stirring sounds. The score is a culmination of the marvellous musics—in whose making Michael's vision, Lucifer's technical skills, and the inspiration of Eve's love seem to have conspired—that have poured from Stockhausen during the last thirty years. ... But what matters most now is the excitement of entering this huge, ambitious work, responding to its sounds and sights, trying to understand it, and feeling, perhaps, that it is—by intention at least—something like a Divine Comedy and a Comédie Humaine in one.[17]

Discography edit

  • Stockhausen: Donnerstag aus Licht. Annette Meriweather (soprano); Robert Gambill, Michael Angel, Paul Sperry (tenors); Matthias Hölle (bass); Elizabeth Clarke, Alain Louafi (speakers); Markus Stockhausen (trumpet); Suzanne Stephens (basset horn); Alain Damiens (clarinet); Michel Arrignon (clarinet and basset horn); Hugo Read, Simon Stockhausen (soprano saxophones); Mark Tezak (trombone); Majella Stockhausen (piano); Ensemble InterContemporain; Choir of the West German Radio, Cologne; Hilversum Radio Choir; Péter Eötvös (conductor and Hammond organ); Karlheinz Stockhausen (conductor and sound projection). DG 2740 272 (4 LPs); DGG 423 379-2 (4CDs). Hamburg: Polydor International, 1983. Reissued Stockhausen Complete Edition, CD 30 A–D (4CDs). Kürten: Stockhausen-Verlag, 1992.
  • Schöpfung und Erschöpfung. Musik in Deutschland 1950–2000. Mauricio Kagel; Karlheinz Stockhausen. CD. 74321 73635 2. [Munich]: BMG Ariola Classics, 2003. Includes Examen, act 1 scene 3 from Donnerstag aus Licht (Julian Pike, tenor; Markus Stockhausen, trumpet; Suzanne Stephens, basset horn; Majella Stockhausen, piano; Annette Meriweather, soprano; Nicholas Isherwood, bass; Elizabeth Clarke and Alain Louafi, speakers; Karlheinz Stockhausen, sound projection.
  • Karlheinz Stockhausen: Unsichtbare Chöre / Invisible Choirs /Chœrs Invisibles vom / from / de Donnerstag aus Licht. West German Radio Chorus (prepared by Herbert Schernus, Godfried Ritter, Karlheinz Stockhausen); Suzanne Stephens (clarinets); Karlheinz Stockhausen (musical direction, sound projectionm and tape mixdown). DG (LP) 419432-1; CD 419 432-2. Hamburg: Polydor International, 1986. Reissued, Stockhausen Complete Edition CD 31. Kürten: Stockhausen-Verlag, 1992.
  • Karlheinz Stockhausen: Michaels Reise um die Erde: Solisten-Version für einen Trompeter, 9 Mitspieler und Klangregisseur (1977/78). Markus Stockhausen (trumpet), Suzanne Stephens (basset horn), Ian Stuart (clarinet), Lesley Schatzberger (clarinet and basset horn), Michael Svoboda (trombone and baritone horn), Kathinka Pasveer (alto flute), Andreas Boettger (percussion), Isao Nakamura (percussion), Michael Obst, Simon Stockhausen (synthesizers), Karlheinz Stockhausen (sound projection). ECM New Series 1406 437 188-2 (Japan release CD POCC-1008). Munich: ECM Records GmbH, 1992.
  • Karlheinz Stockhausen Musik für Klarinette, Baßklarinette, Bassetthorn: Suzee Stephens spielt 15 Kompositionen. With Kathinka Pasveer (alto flute), Joachim Krist (viola), Majella Stockhausen (piano), Julian Pike (tenor), Markus Stockhausen (trumpet), and Simon Stockhausen (synthesizer). (Includes Tanze Luzefa! for basset horn, Bijou for alto flute, bass clarinet, and tape, Mondeva for tenor and basset horn, and Mission unf Himmelfahrt for trumpet and basset horn, all from Donnerstag aus Licht.) Stockhausen Complete Edition CD 32 A–C (3 CDs). Kürten: Stockhausen-Verlag, 1994.
  • Markus Stockhausen Plays Karlheinz Stockhausen. Markus Stockhausen (trumpet), Nick de Groot (double bass), Annette Meriweather (soprano). (Halt from Michaels Reise um die Erde, for trumpet and double bass; Aries from Sirius, for trumpet and electronic music; In Freundschaft for trumpet; Pietà from Dienstag aus Licht for flugelhorn and soprano.) EMI Classics (CD) 5 56645 2. Cologne: EMI Electrola GmbH, 1998. Reissued Stockhausen Complete Edition CD 60. Kürten: Stockhausen-Verlag.
  • Karlheinz Stockhausen: Bass Clarinet and Piano. Volker Hemken (bass clarinet), Steffen Schleiermacher (piano). (Tanze Luzefa!, from Michaels Jugend, act 1 of Donnerstag aus Licht; Klavierstücke VII, VIII, and IX; In Freundschaft for bass clarinet; Tierkreis for bass clarinet and piano, with toy piano and music box.) DG Scene (CD) MDG 613 1451-2. Detmold: Dabringhaus und Grimm Audiovision, 2007.
  • Stockhausen: Michael's Farewell. John Wallace (trumpet), Andrew Powell (live electronics). (Karlheinz Stockhausen, Michael's Farewell from Donnerstag aus Licht; Andrew Powell, Plasmogeny II; Roger Smalley, Echo III; Tim Souster, The Transistor Radio of St. Narcissus.) Deux-Elles CD DXL 1039. Reading: Deux-Elles Limited, 2002.
  • Tara Bouman, Klarinette, Bassetthorn: Contemporary. (CD) DeutschlandRadio Aktivraum AR 50101. Cologne: Aktivraum Musik, 2003. Includes Mission und Himmelfahrt from Michaels Reise um die Erde, from Donnerstag aus Licht, with Markus Stockhausen (trumpet).
  • Michael Duke, Duo Sax: Music for Two Saxophones. Barry Cockcroft: Slap Me; Pierre-Max Dubois: Six Caprices; Paul Hindemith: Konzertstück; Steven Galante: Saxsounds III (Diminishing Returns); Karlheinz Stockhausen: Knabenduett; Christian Lauba: Ars; Bruno Maderna: Dialodia; Paul Stanhope: Air; Samuel Adler: Contrasting Inventions; Martin Kay: Honey; John David Lamb: Barefoot Dances. Michael Duke (all tracks), Jeff Emerich (Cockcraft, Hindemith, Galante), Michael Lichnovsky (Stockhausen, Lauba, Maderna, Adler), Martin Kay (Kay), Anna Duke (Lamb). (CD) Saxophone Classics CC4006. London: Saxophone Classics, 2012.
  • Karlheinz Stockhausen: Michaels Reise um die Erde. Marco Blaauw (trumpet), Musikfabrik NRW, Peter Rundel (conductor). Live recording 2008. Wergo (CD) WER 6858 2. Mainz: Wergo, 2012.
  • Scriabin|Stockhausen: Light. Vanessa Benelli Mosell, piano. Decca 481 2491 (CD). [Klavierstück XII: Examination from Thursday from Light (recorded November 2015).] London: Decca Music Group Limited, 2016.

Filmography edit

  • Davies, Russell (presenter). 1985. Arts Review. Segment "Opera: Donnerstag by Karlheinz Stockhausen" includes studio discussion with Bernard Williams, Judith Weir, and Michael Nyman, and a filmed interview with Stockhausen by Peter Heyworth. BBC2 (21 September, 7:40–8:30pm).
  • Examen vom Donnerstag aus Licht. José Montes-Baquer, dir. Cologne: WDR, 1990.
  • Michaels Reise um die Erde. Markus Stockhausen (trumpet), Symphony Orchestra of the RAI Rome, Karlheinz Stockhausen (conductor). Rome: RAI, 1979.
  • Michaels Reise um die Erde. Soloists' Version. Cologne: WDR, 1990.
  • Michaels Reise um die Erde. Marco Blaauw (Michael, trumpet), Nicola Jürgensen (Eve, basset horn), Carl Rosman and Fie Schouten (Swallow pair, clarinets). Carlus Padrissa, stage director. Roland Olbeter, art director. Chu Uroz, costumes. MusikFabrik, Peter Rundel, conductor. Thomas Ulrich, script editor. János S. Darvas, director. WDR for Wiener Festwochen, 2009.

References edit

  1. ^ Kurtz 1992, 213.
  2. ^ Stockhausen 1989a, 189.
  3. ^ Tommasini 2013.
  4. ^ Anon. 2018.
  5. ^ Stockhausen 1989a, 182.
  6. ^ Stockhausen 1989b, 200.
  7. ^ Stockhausen 1989b, 201.
  8. ^ Kurtz 1992, 213–214.
  9. ^ Kohl 1993, 209–212.
  10. ^ Stockhausen 1989a, 412.
  11. ^ Stockhausen 1989a, 488.
  12. ^ Stockhausen 1994, 77.
  13. ^ Stockhausen 1989a, 206–207.
  14. ^ Kurtz 1992, 214–216.
  15. ^ Griffiths 1985b.
  16. ^ Porter 1985, 127.
  17. ^ Porter 1985, 131.

Cited sources edit

  • Anon. 2018. "Donnerstag aus Licht: Karlheinz Stockhausen". Opéra Comique website (accessed 3 July 2019).
  • Griffiths, Paul. 1985b. "A Great Creative Mind Talks to Itself". The Times (18 September): 15.
  • Kohl, Jerome. 1993. "Time and Light." Contemporary Music Review 7, no. 2:203–219.
  • Kurtz, Michael. 1992. Stockhausen: A Biography, translated by Richard Toop. London and Boston: Faber and Faber. ISBN 0-571-14323-7 (cloth) ISBN 0-571-17146-X (pbk).
  • Porter, Andrew. 1985. "Musical Events: Thursday Splendor". The New Yorker (21 October): 127–128, 131–132.
  • Stockhausen, Karlheinz. 1989a. Texte zur Musik, vol. 5, edited by Christoph von Blumröder. DuMont Dokumente. Cologne: DuMont Buchverlag. ISBN 3-7701-2249-6.
  • Stockhausen, Karlheinz. 1989b. Texte zur Musik, vol. 6, edited by Christoph von Blumröder. DuMont Dokumente. Cologne: DuMont Buchverlag. ISBN 3-7701-2249-6.
  • Stockhausen, Karlheinz. 1994. "Electroacoustic Performance Practice", translated by Jerome Kohl. Perspectives of New Music 34, no. 1 (Fall): 74–105.
  • Tommasini, Anthony (19 July 2013). "A Global Quest, Touching Down in New York: A Karlheinz Stockhausen Work Has Its North American Premiere". The New York Times. p. C1.

Further reading edit

  • Adamenko, Victoria. 2007. Neo-mythologism in Music: From Scriabin and Schoenberg to Schnittke and Crumb. Interplay Series 5. Hillsdale, New York: Pendragon Press. ISBN 1-57647-125-X.
  • Bandur, Markus. 2004. "'...alles aus einem Kern entfaltet, thematisch und strukturell'. Karlheinz Stockhausen und die Rezeption des Urantia Book in LICHT 2003-10-11 at the Wayback Machine". In Internationales Stockhausen-Symposion 2000: LICHT: Musikwissenschaftliches Institut der Universität zu Köln, 19. bis 22. Oktober 2000. Tagungsbericht. Signale aus Köln: Musik der Zeit 10. Ed. Imke Misch and Christoph von Blumröder, 136–146. Münster, Berlin, London: Lit Verlag. ISBN 3-8258-7944-5.
  • Britton, Peter. 1985. "Stockhausen's Path to Opera". The Musical Times 126, no. 1711 (September): 515–521.
  • Bruno, Pascal. 1999. "Donnerstag aus Licht: A New Myth, or Simply an Updating of a Knowledge?" Perspectives of New Music 37, no. 1 (Winter):133–156.
  • Courir, Duilio. 1981. "Stockhausen, il diavolo e il paradiso: Alla Scala tra fischi e applausi Donnerstag integrale". Corriere della Sera (5 April). Reprinted in Stockhausen 70: Das Programmbuch Köln 1998, edited by Imke Misch and Christoph von Blumröder, 148–149. Signale aus Köln: Beiträge zur Musik der Zeit 1. Saarbrücken: PFAU-Verlag, 1998. ISBN 3-89727-047-1.
  • Dirmeikis, Paul. 1999. Le Souffle du temps: Quodlibet pour Karlheinz Stockhausen. [La Seyne-sur-Mer]: Éditions Telo Martius. ISBN 2-905023-37-6.
  • Drew, Joseph. 2014. "Michael from Light: A Character Study of Karlheinz Stockhausen's Hero". Ph.D. diss. New York: New York University.
  • Frisius, Rudolf. 2013. Karlheinz Stockhausen III: Die Werkzyklen 1977–2007. Mainz, London, Berlin, Madrid, New York, Paris, Prague, Tokyo, Toronto: Schott Music. ISBN 978-3-7957-0772-9.
  • Fürst, Christian. 2008. "Jubel für Stockhausens «Michaels Reise» in Wien 2011-07-23 at the Wayback Machine". Schwäbische Zeitung (13 May).
  • Glossner, Herbert. 1981. "Michael grüßt die Menschenkinder: Stockhausen an der Scala: Donnerstag aus Licht". Deutsches Allgemeines Sonntagsblatt [de] (29 March). Reprinted in Stockhausen 70: Das Programmbuch Köln 1998, edited by Imke Misch and Christoph von Blumröder, 150–152. Signale aus Köln: Beiträge zur Musik der Zeit 1. Saarbrücken: PFAU-Verlag, 1998. ISBN 3-89727-047-1.
  • Godwin, Joscelyn. 1998. "Stockhausen's Donnerstag aus Licht and Gnosticism". In Gnosis and Hermeticism from Antiquity to Modern Times, SUNY Series in Western Esoteric Traditions, edited by Roelof van den Broek and Wouter J. Hanegraaff, 347–358. Albany: State University of New York Press. ISBN 0-7914-3611-X (cloth) ISBN 0-7914-3612-8 (pbk).
  • Griffiths, Paul. 1980. "Holland Festival: Stockhausen in the Clouds". The Times (17 June): 13.
  • Griffiths, Paul. 1982. "Stockhausen: Riverside Studios". The Times (10 May): 7.
  • Griffiths, Paul. 1985a. "Staging a Week to Remember". The Times (14 September): 18.
  • Gutknecht, Dieter. 1995. "Stockhausen und Japan". In Lux oriente: Begegnungen der Kulturen in der Musikforschung—Festschrift Robert Günther zum 65. Geburtstag, edited by Uwe U. Pätzold, Kyo-chul Chung, and Klaus Wolfgang Niemöller, 271–284. Kölner Beiträge zur Musikforschung 188. Regensburg: Gustav Bosse Verlag. ISBN 3-7649-2620-1.
  • Heuberger, Peter. 2016 "Basel: 'DONNERSTAG' aus 'LICHT' von Karl-Heinz [sic] Stockhausen. Premiere". Der Neue Merker (25 June) (accessed 29 June 2016).
  • Jiracek, Pavel B. 2016. "(N)irgendwo auf der Welt: Zu Karlheinz Stockhausens magischem Welttheater Donnerstag aus 'Licht'". Donnerstag aus Licht: Schweizer Erstaufführung (programme book), 18–30. 32. Saison 2015–16. Basel: Theater Basel.
  • Kenyon, Nicholas. 1980. "Musical Events: Seven Days' Wonder". The New Yorker (25 August): 78–81.
  • Knessl, Lothar. 2008. "Weltschöpfer: Karlheinz Stockhausen (1928–2007)—Michaels Reise (1978), II. Akt vom Donnerstag aus Licht". Österreichische Musikzeitschrift 63, no. 5 (May): 11–15.
  • Koch, Gerhard R. 1981. "Streik verhindert Welterlösung". Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, no. 65 (18 March): 25.
  • Kohl, Jerome. 1983–84a. "The Evolution of Macro- and Micro-Time Relations in Stockhausen's Recent Music". Perspectives of New Music 22, nos. 1 and 2:147–185.
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    • "Stockhausen Edition No. 30: Donnerstag aus Licht"
    • "Stockhausen Edition No. 31: Unsichtbare Chöre"
    • Stockhausen Edition No. 42: Eingang und Formel; Examen; Drachenkampf; Oberlippentanz; Pietà
  • Adorján F. Kovács: "Triumph der Kunst über den Zeitgeist" (in German)

January 01, 1970
donnerstag, licht, thursday, from, light, opera, karlheinz, stockhausen, greeting, three, acts, farewell, first, seven, composed, opera, cycle, licht, sieben, tage, woche, light, seven, days, week, written, between, 1977, 1980, with, libretto, composer, opera,. Donnerstag aus Licht Thursday from Light is an opera by Karlheinz Stockhausen in a greeting three acts and a farewell and was the first of seven to be composed for the opera cycle Licht die sieben Tage der Woche Light The Seven Days of the Week It was written between 1977 and 1980 with a libretto by the composer Donnerstag aus LichtOpera by Karlheinz StockhausenStockhausen rehearsing Michaels Heimkehr in 1980LibrettistStockhausenLanguageGermanPremiereMarch 15 1981 1981 03 15 La Scala Milan Karlheinz Stockhausens grave with the score to LICHT Its second act Michaels Reise um die Erde Michael s Journey Around the Earth has been performed and recorded individually Contents 1 History 2 Roles 3 Synopsis 3 1 Donnerstags Gruss 3 2 Act 1 Michaels Jugend 3 2 1 Scene 1 Kindheit 3 2 2 Scene 2 Mondeva 3 2 3 Scene 3 Examen 3 3 Act 2 Michaels Reise um die Erde 3 4 Act 3 Michaels Heimkehr 3 4 1 Scene 1 Festival 3 4 2 Scene 2 Vision 3 5 Donnerstags Abschied 3 6 Unsichtbare Chore 4 Critical reception 5 Discography 6 Filmography 7 References 7 1 Cited sources 8 Further reading 9 External linksHistory editDonnerstag was given its staged premiere on 15 March 1981 by the La Scala Opera in the Teatro alla Scala in Milan but without the third act which had to be omitted due to a strike by the opera chorus of La Scala They had demanded soloists bonuses because of one brief passage in act 3 and had been turned down by the management Further performances without the third act followed on 18 21 24 and 27 March An agreement was finally reached and the complete opera was finally performed on 3 April with two further performances on 5 and 7 April 1 The stage direction was by Luca Ronconi with costume and stage design by Gae Aulenti Scenic realisation was by Giorgio Cristini lighting by Vannio Vanni light compositions act 3 by Mary Bauermeister Peter Eotvos conducted and played the Hammond organ in act 3 scene 2 Karlheinz Stockhausen was the sound projectionist On 19 December 1981 Donnerstag was awarded the Premio Critica Musicale F Abbiati for best new work of contemporary music 2 A second staging was given by the Royal Opera Covent Garden in London on 16 18 20 24 and 26 September 1985 The stage direction was by Michael Bogdanov designed by Mari Bjornson lighting and light compositions by Chris Ellis Peter Eotvos conducted and Stockhausen was the sound projectionist The second act Michaels Reise um die Erde Michael s Journey Around the Earth was staged separately in 2008 by Carlus Padrissa es of La Fura dels Baus with stage direction by Roland Olbeter It was performed by Marco Blaauw trumpet Nicola Jurgensen basset horn and musikFabrik directed by Peter Rundel Video was by Franc Aleu dramaturgy by Thomas Ulrich lighting by Frank Sobotta and sound direction by Paul Jeukendrup This was initially a production of the Wiener Taschenoper in collaboration with the Wiener Festwochen In 2013 this production was revived for three performances at Avery Fisher Hall in New York as part of the Lincoln Center Festival beginning appropriately on Thursday 18 July 3 A third production by the American director Lydia Steier dramaturgy Pavel B Jiracek opened at the Basel Opera on 25 June 2016 with sets designed by Barbara Ehnes costumes by Ursula Kudrna and video effects by Chris Kondek Paul Hubner performed the trumpeter Michael with Peter Tantsits tenor as the singer Michael Soprano Anu Komsi sang the part of the Mother and bass Michael Leibundgut sang the Father Another production took place from 15 November to 19 November 2018 at the Opera Comique in Paris with Maxime Pascal as music director and staging by Benjamin Lazar It was performed by Damien Bigourdan and Safir Behloul both Michael as tenor Henri Deleger Michael as trumpeter Iris Zerdoud Eve as basset hornist and Le Balcon orchestra 4 Donnerstag is an opera for 14 performers 3 voices 8 instrumentalists 3 dancers plus a choir an orchestra and tapes It was composed between 1977 and 1980 In the larger context of Licht Thursday is Michael s day Thursday s exoteric primary colour is bright blue and its esoteric secondary colours are purple and violet 5 6 Thursday is also the day of plants 7 Roles editRoles performer premiere casts Role Performer Premiere cast La Scala 1981 London cast 1985 Basel cast 2016 Michael tenor Robert Gambill act 1 Paul Sperry act 3 Julian Pike Frieder Lang on 18 September Peter Tantsits act 1 Rolf Romei act 3 Michael trumpeter Markus Stockhausen Markus Stockhausen Paul Hubner Michael dancer Michele Noiret Michele Noiret Emmanuelle Grach Eve soprano Annette Meriweather Annette Meriweather Anu Komsi Eve basset horn Suzanne Stephens Suzanne Stephens Merve Kazokoglu Eve dancer Elizabeth Clarke Elisabeth Clarke Evelyn Angela Gugolz Lucifer bass Matthias Holle Nicholas Isherwood Michael Leibundgut Lucifer trombonist Mark Tezak Michael Svoboda Stephen Menotti Lucifer dancer mime Alain Louafi Alain Louafi Eric Lamb Michael s Accompanist pianist Majella Stockhausen Majella Stockhausen Ansi Verwey Invisible Choirs choir WDR choir Karlheinz Stockhausen conductor 16 track recording WDR Choir Stockhausen conductor 16 track recording WDR Choir Stockhausen conductor 16 track recording Clownesque Pair of Swallows clarinetists 2nd doubles basset horn Alain Damiens Michel Arrignon David Smeyers Beate Zelinsky Innhyuck Cho Markus Forrer Two Boys soprano saxophonists Hugo Read Simon Stockhausen Simon Stockhausen Emilie Chabrol Romain Chaumont Old Woman actress Elena Pantano Messenger tenor Giovanni Mastino Penguins at the South Pole act 2 orchestra Orchestra of the Teatro alla Scala Peter Eotvos conductor Orchestra of the Royal Opera Covent Garden Peter Eotvos conductor Sinfonieorchester Basel Titus Engel conductor Heavenly Choirs and Orchestra act 3 choir and orchestra Orchestra and Choir of the Teatro alla Scala Peter Eotvos conductor Orchestra and Choir of the Royal Opera Covent Garden Peter Eotvos conductor Chor des Theater Basel Studierende der Hochschule fur Musik FHNW Musik Akademie Basel Sinfonieorchester Basel Titus Engel conductorSynopsis edit nbsp Archangel Michael Cologne Cathedral north portal The time and place are universal Donnerstags Gruss edit The Thursday Greeting is performed in the foyer as the audience is arriving Act 1 Michaels Jugend edit The first act consists of three scenes that follow one another without a break Scene 1 Kindheit edit In Childhood Michael a son of poor parents demonstrates exceptional gifts His father a schoolteacher teaches him to pray hunt shoot and perform in theatre From his mother he learns singing and merry making dancing and seduction His parents quarrel and a younger brother Hermannchen dies in infancy The mother goes mad attempts suicide and is hospitalised The father turns to drink and goes off to war Scene 2 Mondeva edit In the forest Michael encounters Mondeva Moon Eve half woman half bird and falls in love with her As he discovers how to control her music through erotic play in a parallel scene Michael s mother is being killed by a doctor in an asylum Scene 3 Examen edit Michael undergoes a triple admission examination to the conservatory First as a singer then as a trumpeter and finally as a dancer he amazes the jury who enthusiastically admit him Act 2 Michaels Reise um die Erde edit In the second act Michael undertakes a journey around the world in what is essentially a trumpet concerto with orchestra performed in a huge rotating globe set against a starry firmament There are seven stations along the way at each of which the music takes on colour from the locale Germany New York Japan Bali India Central Africa and Jerusalem Michael s formula gradually evolves from a simple beginning form to increasingly florid extravagance finally shattering into incoherent fragments in stations 5 and 6 When he reaches Central Africa Michael hears a distant basset horn and orders the globe to stop turning Michael commands the earth to rotate in reverse as the seventh station Jerusalem is reached and he begins a new process of rehabilitation in a therapeutic conversation with a double bass player Mondeva appears and they perform a duet in which their melodic formulas merge and intertwine until each plays the other s formula Two clownish clarinet players costumed as a pair of swallows mock and together with the orchestral low brass an emblem of Lucifer crucify him after which the act ends with a musical ascension in which the sounds of the trumpet and basset horn circle around until they are united in a trill 8 9 Act 3 Michaels Heimkehr edit In the third act Michael in his threefold manifestation as tenor trumpeter and dancer returns to his celestial home Scene 1 Festival edit nbsp Michael fighting the Dragon Bonn University main entrance As the invisible choirs sing all around he is welcomed by Eve also in threefold form as soprano basset hornist and dancer five choirs delegates from various parts of the Michael Universe five orchestral groups and a background string orchestra 10 Meditation Eve presents Michael with a gift of three plants and another of three compositions of light First Light Composition Chaos out of Colours Second Light Composition Suns out of Chaos Third Light Composition Chaos from Colours Part 1 Moons Part 2 Moons and Glassy Images Part 3 Starry Sky The signs of the Zodiac appear one after another from Aquarius to Capricorn Suddenly an old lady steps forward and demands Why don t you all come home The choirs answer her There is no home Even angels are always on the move Eve presents Michael with a final gift a terrestrial globe as a souvenir of his journey around the earth Lucifer appears first as a gremlin who springs out of the globe and presents Michael with his own smaller blue globe Michael passes it around to the choir which infuriates the gremlin who makes threatening gestures and summons assistance Michael s Battle with the Dragon Lucifer reappears in a second form as a tap dancing trombonist dressed as a torero with a black cape and hat and the gremlin turns into a dragon Michael gives battle and the dragon wounded many times sinks to the ground Michael borrows the conductor s long baton to deliver the coup de grace The dragon tries one last time to rise but falls on his belly The trombonist too staggers and falls on his back legs in the air Boys Duet played by two angelic soprano saxophonists Argument A messenger arrives to announce that Lucifer is once again causing trouble Lucifer reappears now in triple form as a bass singer a trombonist and a dancer mime and taunts Michael who dismisses him You have lost You have corrupted your wisdom through your bitter irony poisonous sarcasm now fills your heart You are no longer immortal Lucifer Can t you just once allow us to celebrate a festival in peace Lucifer can only go away muttering in disgust You fool You fool as the scene ends Scene 2 Vision edit In a process of 15 cyclical transpositions Michael explains in threefold appearance as singer trumpeter and dancer his experience and opposition to Lucifer Donnerstags Abschied edit nbsp Archangel Michael as trumpeter Christuskirche Mannheim The Thursday Farewell also called Michael s Farewell is performed outside the opera house following the performance by five trumpeters who begin as the last scene Vision is concluding They are costumed as Michael and positioned on the rooftops or on balconies surrounding the square floodlit like statues on a tower They each repeat one segment of the Michael formula with long pauses between repetitions for about 30 minutes withdrawing at the end in the order in which their respective segments occur in the formula 11 Unsichtbare Chore edit The Invisible Choirs are played back in the theatre over eight channels throughout most of act 1 and again in act 3 scene 1 and is composed in such a way that they could never be sung by a choir live in part because there are as many as 180 separate voices and in part because of the demands of polyphonic synchronicity exactness of intonation and dynamic balance 12 There are three texts sung in Hebrew Judgement Day from The Ascent of Moses The End of Time from the Apocalypse of Baruch and a Hymn of Praise The Heavens Rejoice from the Book of Leviticus as well as a different passage from The End of Time sung in German 13 Critical reception editThe staged premiere of Donnerstag was very well received in Italy where it was awarded the Italian Music Critics Prize for best new work in December 1981 The German press reception on the other hand was harsh and often ad hominem 14 The Covent Garden production in 1985 also provoked contrary points of view in the press in part divided over the question of the music versus the theatrical conception Paul Griffiths writing in the Times for example found that it contains much quite extraordinary music but the opera never for a moment works as the mystic revelation it pretends to be It is very wondrous to contemplate wondrous that is when it is not just silly 15 Andrew Porter on the contrary found the variety of forces forms textures and matter a strength and a pleasure and the somewhat ramshackle construction saves the work from solemn pretentiousness There s even a playful quality about much of it although its essential seriousness is not in doubt and inner musical integrity is not compromised 16 Porter concludes hearing and seeing the drama is an engrossing enjoyable and elevating adventure Ear mind and spirit are engaged And as I suggested moments of jokiness naivete silliness even save the work from being unbearably solemn Stockhausen Sarastro has a vein of Papageno in him There is a great deal to listen to and to watch Some of the spans especially in the last scene are traversed slowly But things happen the music doesn t fall into simplistic repetitions or numbing stasis There are counterpoints to follow There are supple melodies and rich harmonies There are wonderful sounds new and stirring sounds The score is a culmination of the marvellous musics in whose making Michael s vision Lucifer s technical skills and the inspiration of Eve s love seem to have conspired that have poured from Stockhausen during the last thirty years But what matters most now is the excitement of entering this huge ambitious work responding to its sounds and sights trying to understand it and feeling perhaps that it is by intention at least something like a Divine Comedy and a Comedie Humaine in one 17 Discography editStockhausen Donnerstag aus Licht Annette Meriweather soprano Robert Gambill Michael Angel Paul Sperry tenors Matthias Holle bass Elizabeth Clarke Alain Louafi speakers Markus Stockhausen trumpet Suzanne Stephens basset horn Alain Damiens clarinet Michel Arrignon clarinet and basset horn Hugo Read Simon Stockhausen soprano saxophones Mark Tezak trombone Majella Stockhausen piano Ensemble InterContemporain Choir of the West German Radio Cologne Hilversum Radio Choir Peter Eotvos conductor and Hammond organ Karlheinz Stockhausen conductor and sound projection DG 2740 272 4 LPs DGG 423 379 2 4CDs Hamburg Polydor International 1983 Reissued Stockhausen Complete Edition CD 30 A D 4CDs Kurten Stockhausen Verlag 1992 Schopfung und Erschopfung Musik in Deutschland 1950 2000 Mauricio Kagel Karlheinz Stockhausen CD 74321 73635 2 Munich BMG Ariola Classics 2003 Includes Examen act 1 scene 3 from Donnerstag aus Licht Julian Pike tenor Markus Stockhausen trumpet Suzanne Stephens basset horn Majella Stockhausen piano Annette Meriweather soprano Nicholas Isherwood bass Elizabeth Clarke and Alain Louafi speakers Karlheinz Stockhausen sound projection Karlheinz Stockhausen Unsichtbare Chore Invisible Choirs Chœrs Invisibles vom from de Donnerstag aus Licht West German Radio Chorus prepared by Herbert Schernus Godfried Ritter Karlheinz Stockhausen Suzanne Stephens clarinets Karlheinz Stockhausen musical direction sound projectionm and tape mixdown DG LP 419432 1 CD 419 432 2 Hamburg Polydor International 1986 Reissued Stockhausen Complete Edition CD 31 Kurten Stockhausen Verlag 1992 Karlheinz Stockhausen Michaels Reise um die Erde Solisten Version fur einen Trompeter 9 Mitspieler und Klangregisseur 1977 78 Markus Stockhausen trumpet Suzanne Stephens basset horn Ian Stuart clarinet Lesley Schatzberger clarinet and basset horn Michael Svoboda trombone and baritone horn Kathinka Pasveer alto flute Andreas Boettger percussion Isao Nakamura percussion Michael Obst Simon Stockhausen synthesizers Karlheinz Stockhausen sound projection ECM New Series 1406 437 188 2 Japan release CD POCC 1008 Munich ECM Records GmbH 1992 Karlheinz Stockhausen Musik fur Klarinette Bassklarinette Bassetthorn Suzee Stephens spielt 15 Kompositionen With Kathinka Pasveer alto flute Joachim Krist viola Majella Stockhausen piano Julian Pike tenor Markus Stockhausen trumpet and Simon Stockhausen synthesizer Includes Tanze Luzefa for basset horn Bijou for alto flute bass clarinet and tape Mondeva for tenor and basset horn and Mission unf Himmelfahrt for trumpet and basset horn all from Donnerstag aus Licht Stockhausen Complete Edition CD 32 A C 3 CDs Kurten Stockhausen Verlag 1994 Markus Stockhausen Plays Karlheinz Stockhausen Markus Stockhausen trumpet Nick de Groot double bass Annette Meriweather soprano Halt from Michaels Reise um die Erde for trumpet and double bass Aries from Sirius for trumpet and electronic music In Freundschaft for trumpet Pieta from Dienstag aus Licht for flugelhorn and soprano EMI Classics CD 5 56645 2 Cologne EMI Electrola GmbH 1998 Reissued Stockhausen Complete Edition CD 60 Kurten Stockhausen Verlag Karlheinz Stockhausen Bass Clarinet and Piano Volker Hemken bass clarinet Steffen Schleiermacher piano Tanze Luzefa from Michaels Jugend act 1 of Donnerstag aus Licht Klavierstucke VII VIII and IX In Freundschaft for bass clarinet Tierkreis for bass clarinet and piano with toy piano and music box DG Scene CD MDG 613 1451 2 Detmold Dabringhaus und Grimm Audiovision 2007 Stockhausen Michael s Farewell John Wallace trumpet Andrew Powell live electronics Karlheinz Stockhausen Michael s Farewell from Donnerstag aus Licht Andrew Powell Plasmogeny II Roger Smalley Echo III Tim Souster The Transistor Radio of St Narcissus Deux Elles CD DXL 1039 Reading Deux Elles Limited 2002 Tara Bouman Klarinette Bassetthorn Contemporary CD DeutschlandRadio Aktivraum AR 50101 Cologne Aktivraum Musik 2003 Includes Mission und Himmelfahrt from Michaels Reise um die Erde from Donnerstag aus Licht with Markus Stockhausen trumpet Michael Duke Duo Sax Music for Two Saxophones Barry Cockcroft Slap Me Pierre Max Dubois Six Caprices Paul Hindemith Konzertstuck Steven Galante Saxsounds III Diminishing Returns Karlheinz Stockhausen Knabenduett Christian Lauba Ars Bruno Maderna Dialodia Paul Stanhope Air Samuel Adler Contrasting Inventions Martin Kay Honey John David Lamb Barefoot Dances Michael Duke all tracks Jeff Emerich Cockcraft Hindemith Galante Michael Lichnovsky Stockhausen Lauba Maderna Adler Martin Kay Kay Anna Duke Lamb CD Saxophone Classics CC4006 London Saxophone Classics 2012 Karlheinz Stockhausen Michaels Reise um die Erde Marco Blaauw trumpet Musikfabrik NRW Peter Rundel conductor Live recording 2008 Wergo CD WER 6858 2 Mainz Wergo 2012 Scriabin Stockhausen Light Vanessa Benelli Mosell piano Decca 481 2491 CD Klavierstuck XII Examination from Thursday from Light recorded November 2015 London Decca Music Group Limited 2016 Filmography editDavies Russell presenter 1985 Arts Review Segment Opera Donnerstag by Karlheinz Stockhausen includes studio discussion with Bernard Williams Judith Weir and Michael Nyman and a filmed interview with Stockhausen by Peter Heyworth BBC2 21 September 7 40 8 30pm Examen vom Donnerstag aus Licht Jose Montes Baquer dir Cologne WDR 1990 Michaels Reise um die Erde Markus Stockhausen trumpet Symphony Orchestra of the RAI Rome Karlheinz Stockhausen conductor Rome RAI 1979 Michaels Reise um die Erde Soloists Version Cologne WDR 1990 Michaels Reise um die Erde Marco Blaauw Michael trumpet Nicola Jurgensen Eve basset horn Carl Rosman and Fie Schouten Swallow pair clarinets Carlus Padrissa stage director Roland Olbeter art director Chu Uroz costumes MusikFabrik Peter Rundel conductor Thomas Ulrich script editor Janos S Darvas director WDR for Wiener Festwochen 2009 References edit Kurtz 1992 213 Stockhausen 1989a 189 Tommasini 2013 Anon 2018 Stockhausen 1989a 182 Stockhausen 1989b 200 Stockhausen 1989b 201 Kurtz 1992 213 214 Kohl 1993 209 212 Stockhausen 1989a 412 Stockhausen 1989a 488 Stockhausen 1994 77 Stockhausen 1989a 206 207 Kurtz 1992 214 216 Griffiths 1985b Porter 1985 127 Porter 1985 131 Cited sources edit Anon 2018 Donnerstag aus Licht Karlheinz Stockhausen Opera Comique website accessed 3 July 2019 Griffiths Paul 1985b A Great Creative Mind Talks to Itself The Times 18 September 15 Kohl Jerome 1993 Time and Light Contemporary Music Review 7 no 2 203 219 Kurtz Michael 1992 Stockhausen A Biography translated by Richard Toop London and Boston Faber and Faber ISBN 0 571 14323 7 cloth ISBN 0 571 17146 X pbk Porter Andrew 1985 Musical Events Thursday Splendor The New Yorker 21 October 127 128 131 132 Stockhausen Karlheinz 1989a Texte zur Musik vol 5 edited by Christoph von Blumroder DuMont Dokumente Cologne DuMont Buchverlag ISBN 3 7701 2249 6 Stockhausen Karlheinz 1989b Texte zur Musik vol 6 edited by Christoph von Blumroder DuMont Dokumente Cologne DuMont Buchverlag ISBN 3 7701 2249 6 Stockhausen Karlheinz 1994 Electroacoustic Performance Practice translated by Jerome Kohl Perspectives of New Music 34 no 1 Fall 74 105 Tommasini Anthony 19 July 2013 A Global Quest Touching Down in New York A Karlheinz Stockhausen Work Has Its North American Premiere The New York Times p C1 Further reading editAdamenko Victoria 2007 Neo mythologism in Music From Scriabin and Schoenberg to Schnittke and Crumb Interplay Series 5 Hillsdale New York Pendragon Press ISBN 1 57647 125 X Bandur Markus 2004 alles aus einem Kern entfaltet thematisch und strukturell Karlheinz Stockhausen und die Rezeption des Urantia Book in LICHT Archived 2003 10 11 at the Wayback Machine In Internationales Stockhausen Symposion 2000 LICHT Musikwissenschaftliches Institut der Universitat zu Koln 19 bis 22 Oktober 2000 Tagungsbericht Signale aus Koln Musik der Zeit 10 Ed Imke Misch and Christoph von Blumroder 136 146 Munster Berlin London Lit Verlag ISBN 3 8258 7944 5 Britton Peter 1985 Stockhausen s Path to Opera The Musical Times 126 no 1711 September 515 521 Bruno Pascal 1999 Donnerstag aus Licht A New Myth or Simply an Updating of a Knowledge Perspectives of New Music 37 no 1 Winter 133 156 Courir Duilio 1981 Stockhausen il diavolo e il paradiso Alla Scala tra fischi e applausi Donnerstag integrale Corriere della Sera 5 April Reprinted in Stockhausen 70 Das Programmbuch Koln 1998 edited by Imke Misch and Christoph von Blumroder 148 149 Signale aus Koln Beitrage zur Musik der Zeit 1 Saarbrucken PFAU 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