Name: Beyond the Score: Petrushka w/ Brussels Philharmonic & Ben Glassberg
Start: 2026-04-26T15:00:00+02:00
Location: Eugène Flageyplein 18, 1050 Brussels, Belgium

$Beyond the Score: Petrushka w\/ Brussels Philharmonic & Ben Glassberg$

This concert series celebrates the power of imagination: our fantasy transforms what we see in the real world into a universe that is entirely our own, coloured by who we are. What is real? What is illusion? What is imagination? What is reality?
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Musically, the three works each explore our sense of reality in their own way: Joan Tower uses the strength of wildly branching sequoias as a metaphor for the sound bath from which she distils her own voice. Camille Pépin takes a Chinese fairy tale as a mirror for our reality. And in Petrushka, Stravinsky plays with roles, personas, and layered realities – until no one knows what was the fairy tale and what was the real world.
The visual dimension enhances this sense of estrangement – and invites the audience to imagine a personal parallel universe. The new works by artist Ellen Vrijsen, inspired by the music, activate the viewer’s imagination. Motion designer Ychaï Gassenbauer takes it a step further, stretching the boundaries between what is imagined and what is real: images overlap, shift, fade, and flow into one another. What is reality? What is imagined? A parallel universe in which music and image converse.

♫ 𝟏𝟓:𝟎𝟎 𝐁𝐑𝐔𝐒𝐒𝐄𝐋𝐒 𝐏𝐇𝐈𝐋𝐇𝐀𝐑𝐌𝐎𝐍𝐈𝐂 𝐋𝐈𝐕𝐄
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• Joan Tower, Sequoia (1981)
• Camille Pepin, Les Eaux célestes (2022)
• Igor Stravinsky, Petrushka (version 1947)
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★ conducted by Ben Glassberg
★ visual concept by Ellen Vrijsen (visual artist), Gerd Van Looy (artistic coordination) & Ychaï Gassenbauer (motion design)
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► 13:00 doors open
► 14:15 introduction: Sander De Keere (EN)
► 15:00 concert (without break)
► 16:00 end
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𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘴𝘶𝘱𝘱𝘰𝘳𝘵 𝘰𝘧 𝘉𝘦𝘴𝘪𝘥𝘦 𝘛𝘢𝘹 𝘚𝘩𝘦𝘭𝘵𝘦𝘳 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘉𝘦𝘭𝘨𝘪𝘢𝘯 𝘛𝘢𝘹 𝘚𝘩𝘦𝘭𝘵𝘦𝘳