Just having completed his monumental "Light"-composition, which took 27 years to write and lasts for 29 hours, depicting the days of the week, Karl-Heinz Stockhausen has set out for a new endeavour, commissioned by the Art Foundation of Milan. This time, the 24 hours of the day will be the theme and the instrumentarium will consist of organ or synthesizer, sopran and tenor. We don't know of the piece will indeed last for a whole day, but it seems to be definite that you will not have to wait quite that long this time to hear the result: The premiere is scheduled for the 5. 5. 2005 in the Milan Cathedral.

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