MEDIATHEK

The myth of Orpheus, who hailed the gods with the power of music, has remained one of the greatest myths throughout many centuries of history. The musicians on Titanic, who played the music until the very end, thus (possibly) helping more than 2000 souls on the sinking steamer, became a global myth of our time. Evergreen was inspired by a grand moment, when the transcendent nature of the music rebuffed the crush of the indifferent fate. Confronted with the inevitable death, the musicians played under the most demanding circumstances – at the very moment when the noisily demolishing gigantic mechanical structure was swallowed by the raging, uncompromising ocean. Their music thus became a manner of taking control amidst the chaos and unknown by preserving hope and embracing the inevitable – death. That was an extreme trial, a way to deceive death, even if only for a few moments.What Evergreen actually tries to catch through the music are the lost moments in time, the intimate feelings/sounds of those final seconds, the horror, the oblivion, the generosity, the courage, the fear, the faith, the mysterious power of music ... and to bestow the sound with the power of immortality.Resounding through the music are faith and beauty, the same way as the music may have sounded in those unprecedented times of pressure, in that unexpected human drama, in that vast, waving darkness.