Mark Bowden and Owen Sheers present "Creation" (working title)

Wednesday 2 Oct 2013, 16:00 → 17:00 Europe/Zurich

Library, 52 1-052 (CERN)

Creation: A new musical and poetic collaborative project for chorus, soloists and orchestra


Creation is a new collaboration between Mark Bowden, in his role as BBC National Orchestra of Wales’ Resident Composer, and the poet and novelist Owen Sheers. Taking Haydn's 1798 work The Creation as a point of departure, they plan to create a new cantata for the digital age exploring the meaning of creation in the twenty-first century. Through engagement with developments in biology and physics they plan to create a new work incorporating poetry and music that will explore the latest ideas concerning the creation of matter and the emergence of life in the universe whilst also delving into the human side of the brilliant minds that are currently working to uncover these secrets of the universe.

Meet them at the CERN Library on Wednesday October  2nd  at 1600.

Coffee will be served at 1530.