“Nights I wander the world’s city streets, looking for you and talking to you, my heart.”

- Else Lasker-Schüler

Maverick pianist Danaë Killian will show the world her cracked and shining heart in a thrilling solo recital, inspired by German Expressionist poet Else Lasker-Schüler’s provocative work Mein Herz: Ein Liebesroman mit Bildern und wirklich lebenden Menschen (1912).

My Heart is a musical journey into the scintillating, but ultimately doomed artistic counterculture of pre-World War One Berlin, so powerfully evoked in Lasker-Schüler’s novel. 

Featuring music by Danaë’s beloved local composer friends, by Danaë herself, and by Arnold Schoenberg, Lasker-Schüler’s contemporary (who once gave the poet money in a time of need) My Heart is imbued with themes of night-wandering, soul-homelessness and deep yearning.

Lasker-Schüler’s Berlin of 1911 bleeds through Danaë Killian’s My Heart into our Naarm-Melbourne, and in so doing invokes themes of night-wandering, soul-homelessness, and starry yearning.

All proceeds from this performance will go towards the creation of an album of My Heart.

Program:
Drei Klavierstücke, Op. 11 (1910) – Arnold Schoenberg
Möbius for solo piano (2012) – Howard Dillon
Asphyxed (1991) – Christine McCombe
My Prussian Blue Heart for pianist, tarot cards, and piano (2017) – Danaë Killian
The Seventh Centre (1992) – Amelia Barden
Birth Music (2006) – Colin McKellar
Two Minds: Four Pieces for Solo Piano, Op. 73 (2004) – Gregers Brinch
Sikkinis No. 3 (2015) – Evan Lawson