On Sunday, 17 March 2024 The Schoole of Night opened the exhibition and sound installation ” Höre Du blinder Mensch”. It was the official opening of the Jacob Böhme year in Görlitz.
Year 2024 is the 400th anniversary of the death of the German mystic philosopher Jacob Böhme from Görlitz. The exhibition shows copper plates form the 1682 edition of Böhme’s works. The sound installation was directed by Ronald Steckel with the voice of Max Hopp, and it was made in cooperation of Jacob-Böhme Bund and Evangelische Kulturstiftung Görlitz.
The opening took place in the St. Nicolas’ church in Görlitz.
On 16 December 2023 the Schoole of Night performed the songs of John Dowland and a set of newly composed songs by Frank Pschichholz to the texts of John Donne.
The Schoole of Night
Maria Skiba – voice and synthesizers
David Leeuwarden – bass
Tomas Fräntzki – drums
Frank Pschichholz – lute, electic guitar, voice
Zittau, Alter Güterbahnhof, 16 December 2023
You can listen to two pieces below:
John Dowland, Can She Excuse My Wrongs (Maria Skiba | Frank Pschichholz | Michael Havenstein | Radio Bremen)
On 16 November 2023 The Schoole of Night took part in the International Conference: Jacob Böhme: Influence, Reception, and Contexts. Modernity and Postmodernity, organised by the University of Applied Sciences in Nysa, Poland and the International Jacob Böhme Society.
The Schoole of Night
Maria Skiba – soprano & Frank Pschichholz – theorbo
We performed music from the time of Jacob Böhme – songs of Angelus Silesius / Joseph Georg, Diederich von dem Werder and Johann Nauwach.
Special Thanks to Dr. Thomas Regely from the International Jacob Böhme Society.
PROGRAMME Diederich von dem Werder (1584-1657), So wahr du lebest Herr from Vier und zwanzig Freuden-reiche Trost-Lieder/Oder Trost-reiche Freuden-Gesänge…, Leipzig 1653
Angelus Silesius (1624-1677), Joseph Georg (1620-1668), CLX ein fröhliches Morgenlied III Jesu komm doch zu mir IV O wo bistu mein Leben from: Heilige Seelen=Lust (Breslau, 1657/1668)
Diederich von dem Werder, Seind Schmertz und Todt
Johann Nauwach (1595-1630), Ach liebste, lass uns eilen from: Neue Musikalische Ergetzligkeit, Leipzig 1684
Anonymous (1630s), Jeszcze słońce promieni swoich nie straciło from the manuscript BJ 124/65 of the Jagiellonian Library in Krakow
Diederich von dem Werder, Nun stärke dich mein Herz
Angelus Silesius, Joseph Georg, CLXIII ein Abendlied
Anonymous, Dayci Boże dobrą noc from the manuscript BJ 124/65 of the Jagiellonian Library in Krakow
We do like cemeteries. For the fifth time we have had the opportunity to perform on the Nikolaifriedhof (St. Nicolaus’ cemetery) in Görlitz. This time we accompanied the feast of the Nikolaivorstadt and we played French air de cours, songs of John Dowland and Angelus Silesius.
2 September 2023, Nikolaifriedhof in Görlitz
The Schoole of Night | Maria Skiba & Frank Pschichholz
On 27 August 2023 The Schoole of Night met with For ye Violls in Berlin for a for a production of John Dowland’s music, which is a start of a new project together.
Maria Skiba | Frank Pschichholz | Irene Klein | Silke Strauf | Doris Runge | Friederike Däublin
On Friday 14 April 2023 we finished the recording session of The First Booke of Songs of John Dowland (1597) in the Sendesaal Bremen. It was an inspiring time with our sound engineer Michael Havenstein.
We composed seven songs inspired by the lute songs of John Dowland, to the poems of John Donne, William Shakespeare and Anonymous. You are welcome to listen to the raw and uncut demos.
Special thanks to Heinz Müller, Ranjit Prasad and David Leeuwarden.
This project was made possible by Deutscher Musikrat Funding
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