Dear Professor Einstein

Violin Viola Violoncello Contrabass/Bass Guitar Vibraphone Chamber Choir (SATB with divisi)

30'

Merel Vercammen namens Stichting Resonance/SNAAR Festival. Mogelijk gemaakt door de genereuze steun van 94 crowdfunders en Investeringsfonds Muziek.

Nederlands Kamerkoor, Merel Vercammen, Lotus de Vries, Kalle de Bie, Ramon Lormans, David Murray, o.l.v. Boudewijn Jansen.

28 mei 2022, TivoliVredenburg Utrecht

Regularly, we adults marvel at the questions children ask. They are about the most basic phenomena of everyday life, but sometimes the questions are actually deeply philosophical. Why don't we ourselves ask those questions more?

Albert Einstein himself thought it was crazy that people labelled him a 'genius'. Why? Because he believed that he was simply more curious than others and was mostly concerned with finding answers to questions that adults didn't ask since they were past childhood. During SNAAR festival, the Nederlands Kamerkoor, together with the young talents of NKK NXT and five musicians, sang a brand new chamber opera by Mathilde Wantenaar, based on correspondences between Einstein and children. An ode to curiosity and to the wonderful coincidence that plays a role in everyone's life.