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• Sun

  04

  Sep

  2016

  Inventions - A journey into creativity

  15:30

  Pieterskerk, Utrecht, The Netherlands

  Part of Fabulous Fringe Festival Oude Muziek Utrecht and UITFEEST Utrecht

  Inventions – A journey into creativity

  Bach’s Inventions are some of the most played pieces until this day. This music was intended didactically, not only to learn to play the instrument, but also to learn to compose, to learn to use “inventions” and work them out.

  In Bach’s time an invention is a musical idea from which you create the rest of the work. It works along the lines of the ‘paper clip exercise’ for developing creativity, where one is asked to imagine as many uses for a paperclip as possible. The item remains a paperclip, but changes in different contexts entirely. In music the great thing is that those ideas, those different uses for the paperclip can then be combined simultaneously (counterpoint) or follow each other in time in different combinations: they are the characters in a story, a story which changes them for better or worse.

  The audience experiences this directly through its involvement in creating, singing and a look straight into the heart of the kitchen of baroque improvisation.

  James Hewitt – Violin & Viola
  Robert de Bree – Recorder & Oboe