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 a reminder how to cry."

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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’s intimate and engaging compositions take as their starting point existing melodies, which she variously deconstructs, loops, magnifies and utterly transforms. “Music from a deep-tissue perspective”: that’s how she describes her work. After the world premiere of I cannot love without trembling by the Brussels Philharmonic and Ilan Volkov, The New Yorker wrote: “This is music that reminds us how to cry.”