Composer George Crumb gives like button a break #HF17

by Sven Schlijper-Karssenberg
10 June 201730 March 2022
4 min read
For members only, Holland Festival, MUSIC, PODIUM ART, SPECIALS

De deuren sluiten en de spektakelmaatschappij, zoals Guy Debord die beschrijft, blijft buiten. George Crumb (1929) – dit jaar in focus op het Holland Festival – pakt met zijn Metamorphoses, Book I (dat vrijdagavond zijn Europese première beleeft) de hedendaagse mens uit. Weg gaat dus de schil van het voortdurende pandemonium waarin een diarree van woord, beeld en geluid elkaar overtoepen.
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Het nu, zonder besef van toen of dan, staat in die overkokende heksenketel onophoudelijk centra...

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Sven Schlijper-Karssenberg

Sets his ear to places he does not yet know in today's sound. Writes the catalogue raisonné of Swedish artist Leif Elggren's oeuvre, is a board member of Unsounds and programmes music at GOGBOT Festival. His essays on sound art have appeared on releases by Pietro Riparbelli, Michael Esposito, Niels Lyhnne Løkkegaard and John Duncan.View Author posts

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