last days of a cross   1999

made for the microtonal Enharmonic (48-tone) Vogel-Stamm Organ goodbye concert
video and acting  Mendel Hardeman
music  Mendel Hardeman, J S Bach
duration  18'30"
original format  video performance with live music and an LP



  "They left the tower, with a little white cross on it, for the very end, out of some kind of reverence - for them it was a strange experience too, demolishing a church..."       > read more


> see still pictures of the performance


> hear the music     ( 12'30"",  11.4 MB )
last days of a cross - cover picture

◊ Caress

◊ Kyrie Eleison

◊ EXODUS

◊ a Tree for Glenn Gould

◊ A Man with a Cross

◊ Via Crucis

◊ The Cup

◊ Epilogue to Orpheus

◊ Harpsichorpheus

◊ Sysif's Song

◊ Dark Blue Horizon

◊ Times and Tides

◊ Unholy Vessels

◊ INDICTUS

◊ HAP

◊ 7 short attempts to
    write a piece for violin

◊ Reveal thyself Alighieri

◊ Last days of a cross

◊ A Última Quimera

research
◊ the Singing Camera

collaborations
◊ Het Dierenparadijs

◊ Tattooed Tongues

◊ Slowly turning narrative

◊ Planecrash

◊ A View on Beauty
Mendel Hardeman archive 1999-2006
singing eye