The idea for Pearls, Tears of the Sea came to me on the seashore at Camogli after a night during which the waves roared in and a wild storm raged. Next morning I went for a walk along the churned-up beach and was amazed. So much had been washed up on the beach, wood, seaweed, sea urchins, all kinds of flotsam. I took off the pearl I was wearing round my neck and laid it among all these mysterious treasures that had been revealed by the sea. It seemed as if it had always belonged there. Queen of the spume. The project was born.
©2011, Böhlau Verlag Ges.m.b.H. & Co. KG, Wien – Köln – Weimar, 119 Pages,
ISBN-10: 3205787412, ISBN-13: 978-3205787419
- Photo Editor : Laurie Kratochvil, New York
- Pears as loan of : Vision-of-Pearls, Jutta Schley, München
- Including CD : Songs to Rückert’s Poem „Der Himmel hat eine Träne geweint“, read by Michael Heltau
- Music by : Schumann, Reger amongst others, new compositions by: Bruce Adolphe, Fabio Luisi
- Performed by : Christoph Prégardien, Herbert Lippert, Jane Henschel, Miroslav Dvorsky , Renate Holm and Fabio Luisi