Ralf Yusuf Gawlick: Kollwitz-Konnex (...im Frieden seiner Hände)
Song cycle for soprano and guitar (2013)
Anne Harley, soprano | Eliot Fisk, guitar
World premiere performance | April 8, 2013 | Boston College, Boston, MA, United States

USING techniques that include drawing, etching, lithography, woodcut, and sculpture, the German artist Käthe Kollwitz (1867-1945) created more than 100 self-portraits. These should be viewed, wrote author and critic Werner Trimm, as "...a constantly recurring critical confrontation with one's [Kollwitz's] self, a quiet, frequently unsparing self-questioning, a sober reflection on one's state of being, a necessary statement in which the artist confronts herself as well as the day and age she lives in." Kollwitz's letters, memoirs, and diary, from which the text of Kollwitz-Konnex is taken, may be viewed as literary expressions of her self-portraits. They mirror universal themes of life, death, suffering, empathy, brutality, sickness, misery, and innocence.

Kollwitz-Konnex (...im Frieden seiner Hände), a song cycle for soprano and guitar composed by German-American composer Ralf Yusuf Gawlick, celebrates the 125th anniversary of Kollwitz's first self portrait. The music presents nine profiles inspired by nine Kollwitz portraits, and the piece is organized into six movements with each representing a decade of the artist's creative life. The movement presented here was inspired by the "Self-Portrait at the Table" from 1893. This video is the sole online excerpt from the world premiere performance; other movements may be broadcast at a later time.

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