At the heart of the review, the Inner_Spaces Special entitled Hieremias propheta in the Church of San Fedele, with the extraordinary participation of Nicolás Jaar, in a seven-part sacred performance of the book of the prophet Jeremiah in which there will be alternating leçons de ténèbres by François Couperin (1688-1733), electronic sequences with reciting voice by the group Ars Discantica (A. Pileggi and M. Colombo) and three live electronics contributions by the well-known Chilean artist.

Jeremiah lived in the most dramatic time of Judah’s reign, amidst the contention of the two great empires neighboring and competing to take control of Palestine, Egypt and Babylon. Sent by God to the king and people of Judah, Jeremiah for forty years proclaims the need for conversion, the practice of righteousness, the abandonment of idolatry and a return to faithfulness to God, his bridegroom, while also reporting the position to be taken in the international political context: not to ally with Egypt and not to rebel against Babylon. The prophet, however, is not heard, lives in the greatest loneliness, is also mocked, humiliated, imprisoned and thrown into a mud cistern. Jeremiah’s prophecies about the destruction of Jerusalem by Babylon come true. In 587 B.C., the capital of the kingdom of Judah is besieged by Nebuchadnezzar’s army and after a year burned and destroyed. King Sedecia with his family, the nobles and much of the people of Jerusalem are deported to Babylon. Thus begins the darkest time in Israel’s history, the time of exile. But the prophet also announces the hope of return to the homeland, in the book of consolations, an event that took place fifty years later, under the reign of Cyrus the Great, emperor of Persia.

Jeremiah lived in the most dramatic time of Judah’s reign, amidst the contention of the two great empires neighboring and competing to take control of Palestine, Egypt and Babylon. Sent by God to the king and people of Judah, Jeremiah for forty years proclaims the need for conversion, the practice of righteousness, the abandonment of idolatry and a return to faithfulness to God, his bridegroom, while also reporting the position to be taken in the international political context: not to ally with Egypt and not to rebel against Babylon. The prophet, however, is not heard, lives in the greatest loneliness, is also mocked, humiliated, imprisoned and thrown into a mud cistern. Jeremiah’s prophecies about the destruction of Jerusalem by Babylon come true. In 587 B.C., the capital of the kingdom of Judah is besieged by Nebuchadnezzar’s army and after a year burned and destroyed. King Sedecia with his family, the nobles and much of the people of Jerusalem are deported to Babylon. Thus begins the darkest time in Israel’s history, the time of exile. But the prophet also announces the hope of return to the homeland, in the book of consolations, an event that took place fifty years later, under the reign of Cyrus the Great, emperor of Persia.