‘Architectuur is altijd gezien als een bijkomstigheid. Ik zie het als een noodzakelijk iets, geen extraatje. Je ziet nu bijvoorbeeld dat technocraten de macht hebben overgenomen. Die komen voor alles met een technische oplossing. Ze kunnen gebouwen maken die goed geïsoleerd zijn, die aardwarmte gebruiken: dat is nu de taak van de bouwers. Maar al die techneuten vergeten dat het…
After years, my ranting about the invisibility of female composers is starting to bear fruit. Thanks in part to the #MeToo movement, composing ladies are also finally being taken seriously and performed. The NTRZaturdayMatinee is even making them a spearhead of its programming this season. Last Saturday, it performed the world premiere of Salto di Saffo by Calliope Tsoupaki (1963). She composed this double concerto for pan flute, recorder...
Robert Beck, the protagonist of Benedict Wells' debut novel Becks last summer, hopes, as a near-forty-year-old, to make his dream come true after all: a career in music. Wells (34) knows what it is to go all out to pursue your dream. He turned a difficult childhood into literature, and he became damn successful at it. Over the past...
Zijn korte verhalen zien er bedrieglijk eenvoudig uit, en elk woord wordt als op een goudschaaltje afgewogen. Hij schrijft zijn zéér korte verhalen dan ook in principe van A tot Z, zonder er nog iets aan te veranderen. Portret van schrijver A.L. Snijders. ‘Terwijl mijn vrouw stervende was, schreef ik nietsvermoedend een stukje.’ Uitweiden Je zou het niet verwachten van…
Schroeven fabriceren en kunst verzamelen staat op het eerste gezicht als Max Verstappen tot Leonardo da Vinci. De Duitse miljardair Prof. Dr. h.c. mult. Reinhold Würth, eigenaar van het grootste Europese bedrijf van bevestigings- en montagemateriaal, beschikt in Europa over in totaal tien kunstmusea en vier kunstdependances in Duitsland, Zwitserland, Italië, Oostenrijk, Noorwegen, Denemarken, Nederland, Frankrijk en Spanje. Geen kunstkathedralen…
Dutch Director of Photography Robby Müller could paint with light. Averse to rules, he made an important contribution to international cinema. 3 July, he died at the age of 78 in his hometown of Amsterdam.
Last week, while walking the dog, my neighbour Stefanie asked, "What is that anyway, this Holland Festival?", and I almost caught myself wearily going to explain that it was the most important performing arts festival the Netherlands and its environs and that everyone with a bit of education should know it. But I held back. And wondered: how...
The Holland festival has a tradition of combining film with live music. Whether it's the post-punk band Mogwai at Mark Cousins' Atomic Cinema or a live accompaniment to a silent film, something magical usually happens. That was certainly the case at the screening of Fritz Lang's Der Müde Tod (1921), accompanied by composer in...
Here it is. The one and only interactive Culture Press Holland Festival Special. A special that has already been deployed over the past few months, and will be added to in the coming month. During the festival, we have regular reviews and reports, and podcasts. A new edition of this Special will appear every week. On Mondays. And then you can also subscribe via...
Thursday 17 May opens SPRING Performing Arts Festival in Utrecht with, among others, Sic Transit Gloria Mundi by Dries Verhoeven and to come (extended) by Mette Ingvartsen. Over ten days, more than twenty-five international dance and theatre productions, installations and performance works will be on show in public spaces and urban environments. A week earlier, festival director Rainer Hofmann looks relaxed. 'Until now...
Duitsers en humor. Ik heb daar slechte ervaring mee. Zal grotendeels komen doordat ik de fijnere nuances van de taal niet meekrijg, zeker als die bedoeld is om te lachen. Dus het is niet dat het Duitse gevoel voor humor niet klopt. Sterker nog: soms kan er in het Duitse theater zomaar iets gebeuren waarom je moet lachen. Ik wil…
In the documentary 'It is seen', they read and discuss Gerard Reve's defence against the charge of 'narrow blasphemy' 50 years ago. On the basis of their own experiences, they examine the state of freedom of art today. In anticipation of the later broadcast, film theatres will organise screenings followed by discussions.
Dinsdag 13 maart opent het Opera Forward Festival met Das Floss der Medusa van Hans Werner Henze. Dit oratorium uit 1968 sluit naadloos aan bij het thema van de derde editie: Noodlot en Besef. Het is geïnspireerd op een waargebeurd verhaal uit 1816, toen het Franse fregat Méduse strandde op de Afrikaanse kust. De opvarenden werden aan hun lot overgelaten;…
Although Estonia is almost 4,000 square kilometres larger than the Netherlands, it has barely more inhabitants than the province of Utrecht. For centuries, superpowers such as Denmark, Germany, Russia, Sweden and Poland disputed rule over this country on the Baltic Sea. Indeed, its geographical location made it an important link between East and West. It was not until 1918 that a state of its own was declared, but...
Fanny Mendelssohn (1805-1847) was the four-year older sister of Felix Mendelssohn. They both received a solid musical education, with her surpassing him in virtuosity at the piano. Her relationship with Felix was intense, but also suffocating. At his hands, Fanny Mendelssohn failed to build an independent career as a composer. To this day
The previous cultural exploration among playwrights gives cause for further exploration. From the earlier article, we take away that further privatisation only partially captures public money and objectives. See also from elevation ideals to efficiency thinking. We also take away that a public as all-important leads to one-sided popular culture, entertainment and false competition with the free circuit. It all has very little...
Tomas Ross, ook wel de godfather van de Nederlandse ‘faction’ genoemd, sluit met zijn nieuwe thriller Het verdriet van Wilhelmina zijn trilogie over Nederlands-Indië af. ,,Lezers zeggen vaak: bij u weten we nooit wat waar is en wat niet waar. Dat kun je een bezwaar vinden, maar ik vind het een compliment.’’ Arnie Springer De nieuwe thriller van Tomas…
The growth of the Dutch cinema sector continued in 2017, but Dutch cinema remains a problem child. Despicable Me 3 was the most visited. Soof 2 was, as in 2016, the most successful Dutch title. How is the Netherlands doing internationally? And what are we looking forward to in 2018?
Who is the best Dutch film critic? Has everything about #MeToo been said now? Is more money for fewer films a good thing? These and other issues were discussed at the film industry's annual Autumn Consultation.
'What do you desire from Ingrid van Engelshoven, the Minister of Culture?" asked Culture Press in a newsletter to subscribers. Good question! Especially after that first nod she made by generously pledging an extra 10 million to the Performing Arts Fund for the well-performing but not yet receiving anything, 'because the money had run out'. Very nice that band-aid, but...
Would like your interpretation of the cover girl's look on the Theatre Festival Boulevard programme book. It may be projection, but I see a slightly overwhelmed desperation in those eyes, whose eyebrows have been replaced by two playfully placed arches of St John's, above: Den Bosch on my mind. Where to start, mostly. In the book, especially abundance. Glassily designed...
Vorig jaar barstte een kleine rel los toen het Holland Festival bekendmaakte in 2019 een grootschalig project op te tuigen rond de opera Licht van Karlheinz Stockhausen. Modernemuziekhaters schreeuwden moord en brand, want wie zit er nou te wachten op de akelige piepknor van de Duitse notensmid? Toch ontstond er meteen een run op de kaarten. Ook na zijn dood…
The 57th Venice Biennale brings the world together and the art world to Venice. This year, the biennial art event is bigger than ever. Here you will find out what is 'trending' in contemporary art. Everyone thinks something of this event and we live in a time when everything and everyone is held up against the yardstick: 'Have you been there?....
It is dark. Basses thump. An intoxicatingly sweet female perfume hangs in the air, a child cries. AquaSonic has just started, and already I want to leave. What possesses a musician to go head-to-head? Our Danish correspondent went to find out. AquaSonic is an ode to water, played by Between Music, a collective of five Danish musicians. They make...
Every five years, the art world turns upside down. Then it is time for the fourteenth Documenta. At that time, the German city of Kassel turns into a veritable Mecca for art connoisseurs and art lovers, snobs and connoisseurs. And, of course, tourists looking for that other Efteling. This year's Documenta has a sizeable Dutch contribution. But there is more: for the...
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