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The Passion - not for idle followers

Boring, all those films, commercials and youtube videos that always use the same (background) music. For a quiet scène or pathetic docu gets the viewer Pärt presented. Exciting sounds so, and when disaster strikes you hear this.

Common Animals

Ah, even film docu-& TV-makers are like ordinary people and like to resort to the same thing. Dommage! Because there is so much more to discover. That's where I help a little from time to time shall we say. Take the St Matthew Passion for instance. Great piece. You have to be there. Sit through it at least once (and let it sink in). You can go more often, of course. But to then think that is the only Passion piece and leave it at Bach.... sin!

Lifestyle

There is much more beautiful sounding work that deals with suffering. And to put it bluntly: hearing about suffering is itself a bit of suffering (something to do with mirror neurons and so on), making room again for light and air. And that is something contemporary people need more than ever.

Listening waiver

So listen to more Passion music. Fado, Flamenco, smartlappen zat. But for a-sort-of officialële passion you can certainly also find in the contemporary (classical) music world. Music with power of expression. Music whose creator you can also just ask about his work.

My alternative to the St Matthew is a specific work by composer David Lang. Quiet, sophisticated and poignant. Just listen to a movement from The Little Match Girl Passion:

A suivre!

Good to know

PS on 31/3 Utrecht and 1/4 Amsterdam you can listen to it in full: Musa led by Peter Dijkstra. 

Brechtje Roos

listen differently . hear more . set people and organisations in motion . stage person . presentation . social-artistic Brechtje Roos (1972) is a music storyteller. Speaker. Programme maker, publicist & founder of Hoor! Originally a musician. Speaks, writes and enthuses from music. She cares about the position and image of performing artists and likes to make herself heard. Making it clear in a seriously light-hearted tone how things work behind the scenes is her mission for the time being. That can only make the world a more beautiful place. A suivre!View Author posts

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