On Saturday, two brand-new creations take the stage: Maya Verlaak and Cassandra Miller each composed a new work for the Brussels Philharmonic. "Music as social experiment - or as ageing and forgetting."

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Maya Verlaak, in her typical fashion, tosses aside all conventions and turns – with new rules, electronics, and a classical orchestra setup – the piece into a social experiment.

Cassandra Miller wrote Dad Goes to the Mountain as a single-movement composition in four chapters, for her father: "In his old age, he developed vascular dementia which impacted his spacial awareness and short-term memory, but which left his personality largely intact. I feel he was somehow transfigured by the experience. This transfiguration—and lightness—are the topics of this piece.”