Younghi Pagh-Paan: Wintersonne

für gemischten Chor a cappella

nach Texten von Rose Ausländer

((2013/2018))

The composition poses questions. »Where to?« is asked in all four voices at the beginning of an intertwined upward movement. Younghi Pagh-Paan opens the space for her brief piece based on late poems by Rose Ausländer. It is about a poetic determination of place, temporal dimensions, and a dream warmed by the winter sun: we dream that »the world is a bright soul.« It is about perspectives. The choral setting (originally intended for a semi-professional ensemble) starts from simplicity and traditional formal elements but repeatedly departs from them. The internal position, also that of the singers, is perhaps not permanent, the »homeland« does not exist. Instead, it is more about constantly finding new directions, orientation even in the placeless, vision in questioning: »Where does my fear, my love fly to?«

(Lydia Jeschke)

Where to III

Where have

the homeless birds

gone?

Believe in

the first swallow

blue is blue

Wishes

standstill in time

When III

One more day and

one more year

Your question

stays awake

When

will the beginning come

When will you

come to me

will you take me with you

Winter Sun

In the winter sun

your dream is warmed

the world is a bright

soul

Forget your bed

let your thoughts

dance

Every moment

feels like

eternity

You see the mountains, the

sky-colored sea

Forests speak to you

Everything entrusted to you

By the

winter sun

Homeless

With my silk suitcase

I travel the world

One land sober

one wild

The choice is hard for me

I remain homeless

Where to II

I, the unmoored

electron body

Where to

does my fear fly

my love

In the rotating

Space

Rose Ausländer, in: »Und preise die kühlende Liebe der Luft«. Gedichte 1983–1987, S. Fischer 1988 (c) Mit freundlicher Genehmigung der S. Fischer Verlag GmbH

Younghi Pagh-Paan (*1945 in Cheongju, South Korea) studied from 1965 to 1971 at Seoul National University before coming to Germany on a DAAD scholarship. From 1974, she studied at the Freiburg University of Music with Klaus Huber (composition), Brian Ferneyhough (analysis), Peter Förtig (music theory), and Edith Picht-Axenfeld (piano), completing her studies in 1979. She gained international recognition in 1980 with the performance of her orchestral work SORI at the Donaueschingen Music Days. Her works, which uniquely combine Western musical culture with Korean heritage, attracted attention at major festivals of new music and concert events throughout Europe. As one of the few internationally recognized female composers of her generation, Younghi Pagh-Paan was a pioneer. After guest professorships in Graz and Karlsruhe, she was appointed as a professor of composition at the University of the Arts Bremen in 1994, where she founded and directed the Atelier Neue Musik. For her work, Younghi Pagh-Paan has received several international awards, including the Paiknam Prize (Seoul) for lifetime achievement in 2013, the European Church Music Prize in 2015, and in 2020, she became the first composer to receive the prestigious Kunstpreis Berlin.

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