No Exit’s Year of Surreality – Breaking the World
In the opening decades of the 20th century, societies across the globe seemed to be inching ever closer to the precipice of implosion. At a time of materialistic excesses, corruption and structures of power, wealth and governance designed to serve the few over the many, chaos found a voice. As the radical dogmas of nationalism, communism, fascism and anarchy took hold of much of the western world, strife and upheaval abounded.
Program
(presence) (2024) “World Premiere”
Siren
Reptile Arson Valve (2024) “World Premiere”
Stephan Haluska
Reunion (2024) “World Premiere”
James Praznik
Intermission
three poems “World Premiere”
recited by Gunnar Owen- Hirthe, James Praznik and Timothy Beyer
Musical Erratum – ensemble version 2 (1913 / 2024)
Marcel Duchamp
The Ocean of Forgetting (2024) “World Premiere”
Jerome Begin
Preview
May 22, 2024
No Exit concludes Year of Surreality with “Breaking the World”
by Mike Telin, clevelandclassical.com








