37 - Universe, Incomplete

“In case I don’t get to finishing this, somebody might like to try to work out the idea, and the sketch that I’ve already done would make more sense to anybody looking at it with this explanation.” Inspired by these words, director Christoph Marthaler, conductor Titus Engel and stage designer Anna Viebrock developed their own highly individual perspective on an uncompleted project by the American composer Charles Ives: the Universe Symphony, one of the great utopian works of the 20th century.