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Tonight and tomorrow night, the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra kicks off the fourth season of its AAA series, with film music entitled 'Suspense'. But not everyone will immediately associate composers like Bartók, Lutyens and Schoenberg with cinema. Their works stand alongside film scores by Bernard Herrmann to Alfred Hitchcock's Vertigo and Psycho and world premieres by Joey Roukens, Vincent van Warmerdam and Fons Merkies, who wrote music to a film clip of their own choosing. The most...

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Thea Derks

Thea Derks studied English and Musicology. In 1996, she completed her studies in musicology cum laude at the University of Amsterdam. She specialises in contemporary music and in 2014 published the critically acclaimed biography 'Reinbert de Leeuw: man or melody'. Four years on, she completed 'An ox on the roof: modern music in vogevlucht', aimed especially at the interested layperson. You buy it here: https://www.boekenbestellen.nl/boek/een-os-op-het-dak/9789012345675 In 2020, the 3rd edition of the Reinbertbio appeared,with 2 additional chapters describing the period 2014-2020. These also appeared separately as Final Chord.View Author posts

Tonight and tomorrow night, the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra kicks off the fourth season of its AAA series, with film music entitled 'Suspense'. But not everyone will immediately associate composers like Bartók, Lutyens and Schoenberg with cinema. Their works stand alongside film scores by Bernard Herrmann to Alfred Hitchcock's Vertigo and Psycho and world premieres by Joey Roukens, Vincent van Warmerdam and Fons Merkies, who wrote music to a film clip of their own choosing. The most...

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