{"content":"\n    <div class=\"detail-content\">\n        \n        <strong>About work:</strong> <p>FACING DEATH Death is man’s horizon in time. It wanders in front of him like a ghost. This horizon disappears the moment man reaches its boundary. Life and death yield to one another at dying’s intersection. As Jirí Wolker wrote, 'death is not evil, but dying is a difficult part of life.' Pavol Simai Facing Death - well, here the title tells us that this is something serious. The work - the last in a suite of three called \"Scenes\"-was written for Sören Hermansson and the Kroumata Ensemble in 1995, the fiftieth anniversary of the Nazi concentration camp Auschwitz. The piece, for horn and six percussionists, has the form of a dialogue, where the harsh signals from the horn part are woven into the percussionists' ritornellos of drum rolls, bells and cymbal sounds. The composition resembles a rite before a higher power, met with prayer or curses - or probably both. The composer Pavol Simai has the ability to create bridges between the most disparate elements.</p><br>\n        <em>(Hans Gunnar Peterson)</em><br>\n        <br>\n        \n\n        <p>\n                \n                <p><strong>First performance abroad</strong></p>\n                \n                24.02.1996,\n                Stockholm,\n                SE\n\n<br><span class=\"type\">Performers: </span>Sören  Hermansson (cr), Kroumata \n                <br>\n\n\n            </p>\n    </div>\n"}