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So I spent five minutes in singer-songwriter Patrick Watson's studio. He played a bit. Put his phone in the ashtray. Said something to his labrador. And I could look around quietly while he played. Behind me, in front of me. Below and above. Nothing like sitting at an artist's home while he plays. And he wasn't bothered...
Die sterren bij recensies. Ik wil nou wel eens weten hoe je daaraan komt. Leg uit.
Goed. De eerste dertig minuten van Wagners Lohengrin bij De Nationale Opera zijn onvergetelijk. Eerst het Vorspiel met gesloten doek, hartverscheurend mooi gespeeld door het Nederlands Philharmonisch Orkest dat onder leiding van Marc Albrecht aan elke nuance recht doet. Sinds Abbado hoorden we het niet zo indrukwekkend en…
Beginnen met het meest recente nummer. En dan chronologisch terug in de tijd tot ergens diep in de jaren zestig. En dat dan de titel ‘Nothing has changed’ meegeven. Briljante zet van David Bowie. Alle biografen kunnen ogenblikkelijk hun werk in de prullenbak mieteren. Immers, wie chronologisch met de muziek van David Bowie opgroeide kon niet anders dan steeds verbijsterd…
Op 10 november maakte het Witte Huis bekend dat president Obama choreograaf Alvin Ailey selecteert voor de Presidential Medal of Freedom. De erkenning geldt voor de bijdrage en toewijding van Alvin Ailey aan de burgerrechten en dans in Amerika. Het is interessant dat Obama de prijs nu toekent.
Vice kennen we allemaal al. Het is de schrik van ieder al dan niet online medium dat zich op jongerencultuur richt, want met een wereldwijd netwerk en flink wat Amerikaanse dollars is het geen beginnen aan om daar iets naast te zetten. Live Nation kennen we ook al. Als je tenminste weleens een concert bezoekt is de kans groot dat…
We reported earlier. Worldwide, the Netherlands is Crazy when it comes to protecting the creators of books, films, journalism, art, theatre, dance and so on. And no, IT IS NOT ABOUT SUBSIDY NOW. It is about archaic legislation that does protect the middlemen, but leaves the creators outlawed and disenfranchised. That middlemen are paid extremely well, have...
The Holland Festival got a completely unknown new director in the person of Britain's Ruth Mackenzie. At least, to us. The flamboyant, artistically exceptional opera director Pierre Audi makes way for a woman who has presented herself mainly as a manager of festivals and cultural institutions, but whose ideas are anyone's guess. When she was presented, none of the...
Moet de vrije markt aan banden worden gelegd om de Nederlandse cultuur te redden? De kwestie waar de Nederlandse overheid voor staat is nogal een grote. Dinsdag presenteerden de Nederlandse ‘makers’ (kunstenaars, fotografen, acteurs, scenarioschrijvers, vertalers, regisseurs, freelance journalisten enz.) een pamflet. Het pamflet schetst de idiote situatie waarin de Nederlandse culturele en creatieve sector verkeert. Geen ander land miskent…
“ Beste vrienden van Vrije Kennis,” Met deze woorden besluit de voorzitter van Wikimedia Nederland, Frans Grijzenhout zijn welkomspraatje van de Wikipedia conferentie. In een conferentieoord op Hoog-Catharijne word ik omringd door zo’n 120 ‘ Wikipedianen’, zoals ze zichzelf noemen. Zoals in iedere subcultuur is duidelijk te zien wie er tot de vaste incrowd behoort. Wikipedianen zien er uit alsof…
Twenty-five per cent of people have a room they can no longer enter because it is too full of stuff. This is oppressive and it is no wonder that some resort to the other extreme: radical consumerism. In TROEP, theatre group Firma MES follows Barbara, a woman who wants to live with no more than eight objects. Just like Buddhist monks. This results in a delightful, witty play that is seriously thought-provoking and shows how giving up can become just as oppressive as keeping it.
So it really does exist. A high road through the mountains of Romania. Completed in 1974. Viewed by my father in the same year, while his 'guide' told him not to walk too close to the edge, because he would not be the first to crash over the edge. After which his 'guide', the secret agent that every western journalist...
Update: tekst aangepast na tips van onze oplettende lezer Sebastiaan Smits. Het Deense Nationale Kamerorkest stopt per 31 december. Wegbezuinigd. Maar niet vanwege dit filmpje dus, zo wist Sebastiaan Smits te melden. @cultuurpers Is geen protestactie, maar een promotie voor chilipepers. http://t.co/GfsyPJUF2k — Sebastiaan Smits (@sebastiaansmits) November 7, 2014 @sebastiaansmits Dank voor de aanvulling dan. We zullen het corrigeren. To…
It is a little after ten o'clock. I'm on my way to the bakery on Rotterdam's Nieuwe Binnenweg. I pass a coffee shop, a bicycle shop, an off-licence. I also pass the hairdresser's where about 12 men are waiting in front of the door. An hour before the doors open. "Yes but wait... A hairdresser that doesn't open until 11 o'clock...
Je kon erop wachten. Meppelgate. Marieke Heebink, topactrice bij Toneelgroep Amsterdam, had de euvele moed om in de krant te zeggen dat ze blij is in een uitverkocht ‘Angels in America’ in New York te staan. “Godzijdank hoef ik niet naar Meppel” zegt ze. Aj. Aj. Hoe durft ze! Dat levert gegarandeerd boze reacties op. En niet alleen uit Meppel.…
Wat heeft de grachtengordel toch tegen Drenthe? Nu weer Marieke Heebink. Het begon met Yvonne Kroonenberg die na een bezoek aan Assen sprak van “Simpele mensen met van die klassieke Drentse koppen, maar met uitdrukkingsloze ogen. Ik liep daar rond en probeerde die mensen te begrijpen, op dezelfde manier als dat ik me probeer te verdiepen in het geestelijk leven van dieren.” Daarna haastte Kroonenberg zich naar…
The National Theatre will premiere Blueprint for an Even Better Life on 8 November 2014, which addresses, among other things, the position of artists in society. A theme that also featured in their recent Tasso, and in Toneelgroep Amsterdam's successful The Fountainhead. Is the subject of art back on the theatre agenda due to the changed cultural politics of the past...
'The experts have written an inspiring guide, which demonstrates the importance of good music education and also makes clear which steps need to be taken to achieve this. The experts spoke to representatives of primary education, teacher training institutes and the cultural sector. The guide has broad support. Like the experts, I believe that good music education is a responsibility of...
Of course it is ok, that cultural and creative summit we had here. Bussemaker could suddenly talk at a high level again and art suddenly appears to matter again. After all, the creative industry is also about art again. Even if it is just our old art, because at such a conference with those Asian countries, of course, it is usually about...
This month marks two years since 14-year-old schoolgirl Malala was gunned down by a Taliban fighter in Pakistan for standing up for her right to education. Two years later, 10 October 2014, Malala, now a 16-year-old schoolgirl, was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. It was not her first award, nor was it her first (thank you) speech. All...
In the presence of WAKVN*), our culture minister Jet Bussemaker gave a speech to other culture ministers today. It was about creative industries, as a conference on that is now underway in our country. Exchange of knowledge between Asian culture ministers and the Netherlands is already quite unique. For the Netherlands to drop the word 'art' in a meeting on the creative industry is thereby...
When De Wereld Draait Door shows live ballet on air, there must be something going on. And indeed, dancer Marijn Rademaker announces that he has been appointed principal with the Dutch National Ballet. That's no mean feat. He is considered "the best Dutch ballet dancer in the world today".
The Nobel Prize for literature and the Netherlands, it is an unhappy marriage. Not only is Nooteboom, after Mulisch, passed over time and again, on television it is also poor. Yes, on DWDD, people in their fifties trot out to sing the praises of Bob Dylan, but that's it. Of course, Dylan did not become the new laureate, nor the Haruki Murakami, also popular in our country, but the French writer Patrick Modiano.
At Bare toont choreograaf Kenzo Kusuda als in een choreografische documentaire portretten van zes musici van het New European Ensemble. Die komen in het duister op je af en klimmen ten slotte over je stoel heen. Duidelijker kun je je boodschap niet maken.
With a new government in Belgium, the debate on art subsidies has also erupted there. The issue there is only 0.7 per cent of the national budget. The cut of a mere 10% is less substantial than in the Netherlands under the PVV's noose, but the arguments are the same. Though they are often better articulated. Josse de Pauw, international...
The post on facebook that dominated my timeline today: the spontaneous concert at NS station Amsterdam Centraal, taken from the website of the NRC (link: http://www.nrc.nl/muziek/2014/10/09/hoe-drie-artiesten-onverwacht-samen-optraden-op-adam-cs/ For several weeks now, this station has had a piano on which anyone can play. A playful action by the NS to make waiting more fun. This leads to surprising situations. Like this one in which a pianist...
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