One Day in Life

Daniel Libeskind, Alte Oper Frankfurt

ISBN 10: 377742742X / ISBN 13: 9783777427423

Published by Hirmer Verlag, DE, 2017

About this Item

Daniel Libeskind likes to re-define spaces and to disrupt thought patterns - and at the same time he cherishes a great love of music. Reason enough for the Alte Oper Frankfurt to invite the architect and town planner to think freely about the performance of music and concerts. The result is a concert project which will make the entire city echo with the sounds of music for an entire weekend. 24 hours, 18 locations in Frankfurt, 18 dimensions of human life - presented in 75 concerts. In line with the slogan "One Day in Life" the American architect Daniel Libeskind designed a large-scale project for the Alte Oper Frankfurt which ignores the rules of normal concert performances. It will permit an intensified experience of music and space in which sounds are transported to places that were hardly predestined to serve as venues: Indian raga in an operating theatre, Mozart's Requiem in a tram depot and Handel's Water Music in a swimming pool. The present volume documents the stations and impressions of an intensive concert weekend.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: One Day in Life
• Publisher: Hirmer Verlag, DE
• Publication Date: 2017
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 377742742X
• ISBN 13: 9783777427423
• Binding: Hardback
• Condition: New
• Weight: 1020 grams

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Synopsis

In twenty-four hours, Daniel Libeskind and the Alte Oper Frankfurt staged seventy-five concerts across Frankfurt as part of an exciting music project, “One Day in Life.” But to understand “One Day in Life,” you have to think beyond the average symphony center or opera house, with rows upon rows of red-backed seats and acoustic ceiling panels. The idea behind “One Day” was to make all of Frankfurt echo with the sound of music, from Indian raga in an operating room to Mozart’s Requiem in a subway station and Handel’s Water Music at a municipal swimming pool.

One Day in Life is the beautifully produced accompanying volume, featuring powerful photographs, short writings, and a complete listing of locations and performances, which included prestigious artists and ensembles like pianist Pierre-Laurent Aimard, violinist Carolin Widmann, and the Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra and locations like the German National Library’s underground stacks, the former great kitchen of the Römer, and the thirty-eighth floor of the Opera Tower. To add a physical dimension to the project, Libeskind collaborated with the Spanish surface specialist Cosentino on “Musical Labyrinth,” an installation in Frankfurt’s Opera Square, which reproduced the original concept sketch showing the locations of the venues where concerts were to be held. A must-have for all interested in music and architecture, One Day in Life brings together everything you could want to know about this unusual project.
 

About the Author

Daniel Libeskind is an American architect and founder of Studio Daniel Libeskind, whose buildings include the Jewish Museum Berlin, the extension to the Denver Art Museum, the Grand Canal Theatre in Dublin, and the Imperial War Museum North in Manchester. Alte Oper Frankfurt is Frankurt’s oldest opera house, completed in 1880.