Dear Professor Einstein

30'

Merel Vercammen on behalf of Stichting Resonance/SNAAR Festival. Made possible by the generous support of 94 crowdfunders and Investeringsfonds Muziek.

Netherlands Chamber Choir, Merel Vercammen, Lotus de Vries, Kalle de Bie, Ramon Lormans, David Murray, conducted by Boudewijn Jansen.

28 May 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.