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Not every Democrat considers Edward Snowden a hero of transparency, and his unfortunate fate continues to bear out the suspicions surrounding the NSA scandal: "My greatest fear, when I think about the outcome of these revelations for America, is that nothing will change."
This was also clear to the German-American pianist and composer Stefan Litwin (*1960 Mexico City) in 2014, when he scored a major success with his commissioned work "Among Friends" for the Literatursommer BW, written for the KlangForum Heidelberg e.V. The twenty-minute piece for an altered, prepared piano and six fearless voices dissects "America" in all its facets: from the first modern democracy to spying among friends (Angela Merkel), from idealistic patriotism to the "English-lisping" lies (Faust) – and regardless of the rule of the anti-democrat.
J. Marc Reichow (piano) and the SCHOLA HEIDELBERG under Walter Nußbaum performed the piece last summer under COVID-19 conditions and subsequently recorded it at the ZKM in Karlsruhe; as part of the "New Encores" series, it will be made available to the public online on Friday – as usual, accompanied by specially created visuals (J. Marc Reichow).