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Incubators we already had, but where was the incubator? Is Art-up Incubator the salvation for cultural Holland?

by Wijbrand Schaap
4 November 20196 November 2019
3 min read
ACTUAL, PERSONAL, APPRECIATE & DONATE!

Fifty years ago, some tomatoes and smoke bombs flew through Amsterdam's Stadsschouwburg. This will be commemorated on 4 November at ITA, the former Stadsschouwburg, with a gathering for which, according to the many e-mails I receive, not all tickets have been sold yet. Meanwhile, voluminous essays are appearing in the trade magazine and many are wondering whether there might not be another tomato...

Still some places available on 9 May 2019 - Workshop: Storytelling in writing

by one of our members
5 April 201917 April 2019
3 min read
ACADEMY, ACTUAL

On stories, message and social media Storytelling is the latest buzzword. Every organisation these days has to have a story to tell. Is it a fashionable marketing phrase? Not really. Storytelling is not new. We were always telling each other stories. It's just that we sometimes forget. Thinking that passing dry facts to each other is an effective way to get people moving....

Artists, get out into nature, before it's too late (and other reasons for hope)

by Wijbrand Schaap
3 February 201730 March 2022
5 min read
ACTUAL, For members only, PREMIUM

There are those, including in the arts, who still think the world has not changed for good. Who suspect that a vote for a culture-friendly party will at a stroke turn back the clock eight years. Those people will wake up after 15 March to a new world, even if the Netherlands has suddenly chosen whether or not...

Culture Council fill-in exercise offers hardly any surprises

by one of our members
19 May 201630 March 2022
8 min read
ACTUAL, For members only, IMAGING, DANS, FILM, LITERARY, MUSIC, OPERA, PODIUM ART, THEATER, BECOME A MEMBER

Champagne bij BAK in Utrecht, diepe teleurstelling bij Het Nieuwe Instituut in Rotterdam: de Raad voor Cultuur heeft gesproken. Vandaag, donderdag 19 mei 2016, kwam het eerste advies na de draconische kunstbezuinigingen door het eerste kabinet Rutte uit, en er rollen koppen. Amsterdam verliest de prestigieuze presentatie-instelling De Appel, in Den Haag moet collega-instelling Stroom zijn huiswerk overdoen. Het Orkest van het Oosten en het Gelders Orkest moeten binnen 2 jaar met fusieplannen kom...

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De Vriend leaves Orchestra of the East, former chief Van Zweden new boss New York Philharmonic

by Henri Drost
28 January 201628 January 2016
6 min read
ACTUAL, MUSIC, OPERA

It is not often that Norman Lebrecht, author of the globally widely read blog Slipped Disc, covers conductors of the Orchestra of the East two days in a row. First on the departure of principal conductor Jan Willem de Vriend, then on the appointment of former principal conductor Jaap van Zweden to the world-famous New York Philharmonic. Naturally, Lebrecht brought both...

Musicians pay to save their orchestra. TV programme Maestro helps a little.

by Henri Drost
24 January 201630 March 2022
6 min read
ACTUAL, For members only, MUSIC

The Orchestra of the East is cutting its coat of arms, focusing primarily on Overijssel and has applied for collective redundancy. This - and a whole lot more - can be read in the new business plan. It is enough for the province to release a one-off €1.1 million and make 3.5 tonnes of annual subsidy available again from now on. The...

Orchestra of the East reinstated: HET Symphony Orchestra has 'new' name

by Henri Drost
30 November 201518 March 2016
8 min read
ACTUAL, MUSIC

From Dutch Symphony Orchestra with international ambitions back to provincial orchestra with as yet nothing at all. Now, except for the ironclad original name. It could be a commercial for Telfort. In between are many lost court cases, the grotesque protest name *****Symphony Orchestra and the equally garish HET Symphony Orchestra. It is the ultimate capitulation of the once by just about everything and everyone...

The disaster surrounding the eastern orchestras only intensifies. A reconstruction

by Henri Drost
23 November 201518 March 2016
13 min read
ACTUAL, MUSIC

A damning report by organisational consultancy Berenschot, the voluntary or involuntary departure of director Harm Mannak, repeated bickering in the State Assembly and panting reports of high salaries for directors and artistic directors, all the way to the national newspapers. It marks the chaos at HET Symfonieorkest and the lack of any form of direction, not only at the orchestra itself,...

HET Symphony Orchestra director steps down - just before scathing report on business plan

by Henri Drost
6 November 201530 March 2022
3 min read
ACTUAL, For members only, MUSIC

Failing directors stay put, the Supervisory Board disqualifies itself. No other conclusion is possible after reading the counter-expertise commissioned by the province of Overijssel and carried out by Berenschot. The provincial millions intended to make the orchestra subsidy-independent have not only evaporated, but show a negative balance in every aspect. Every estimate was too optimistic,...

HET Symphony Orchestra won't get its 2016 budget done

by Henri Drost
2 October 201529 March 2022
4 min read
ACTUAL, For members only, MUSIC

THE Symphony Orchestra does not have a balanced budget for 2016. Without additional money from the province, it can no longer perform its core task, nor can it fulfil all the commitments it made earlier. That is the gist of the letter CDA deputy commissioner Hester Maij sent to Provincial Council, ahead of its meeting on 7 October. The subject of the letter: "progress business plan/redemption subsidy HET Symfonieorkest"....

No 'cash shift', no cheese slicer, but the blunt axe in Enschede

by Henri Drost
10 June 201530 March 2022
3 min read
ACTUAL, For members only

Where minister Bussemaker tries to sell the same overall budget as "an extra investment of 18 million" with the new "cash shift" and municipalities like Amsterdam use the old-fashioned cheese slicer to make cuts, the municipality of Enschede uses the blunt axe. Despite fierce opposition and 27,000 signatures from concerned citizens, the city council agreed to an additional annual cut of 600,000 on the library and...

Provincial millions for HET Symphony Orchestra evaporated without results

by Henri Drost
2 June 20152 February 2016
6 min read
ACTUAL

What happened to the five million Overijssel gave the orchestra in 2011 to 'get more money from the market'? This was also what councillor Van Abbema wondered, and the answers the province gave her mostly raise more questions. What is abundantly clear is that the province wants to keep the orchestra no matter what and of no merger

New annual figures show: THE Symphony Orchestra is virtually bankrupt

by Henri Drost
1 June 201530 March 2022
2 min read
ACTUAL, For members only, MUSIC

THE Symphony Orchestra is as good as bankrupt. The 2014 figures show that. So it is total nonsense that responsible minister Jet Bussemaker reported in her answers to questions by MP Jacques Monasch less than a month ago that the orchestra was well within the own income norm of 21.5%. Not only did she already use incorrect figures in her answers, now...

Arnhem decides: who takes decisive lead in the battle of the orchestras?

by Henri Drost
18 May 201530 March 2022
5 min read
ACTUAL, For members only

Tonight, the Arnhem city council will take an important decision on the renovation of Musis Sacrum, the monumental concert hall located at a prominent point in the city. But the real news is not in what will be decided tonight, but in the far-reaching consequences. Musis Sacrum dates back to 1847 and is part of the cultural heritage. The venue complex is in dire need of refurbishment and with...

Crisis at The Symphony Orchestra only gets worse thanks to fact-free politics

by Henri Drost
9 April 201529 March 2022
7 min read
ACTUAL, For members only, MUSIC

HET Symfonieorkest's financial problems have not gone unnoticed. Regional newspaper Tubantia reported last Monday that PvdA MP Jacques Monasch had minister Jet Bussemaker (also PvdA) summoned to the Lower House. In that report, Monasch passes with seven-mile boots advice, applications and decisions that have already been made or are yet to come, and immediately reports that a symphony orchestra will continue beyond 2017...

Free money from the bank? Why some get itchy about the Guarantee Fund

by Wijbrand Schaap
7 February 201530 March 2022
4 min read
ACTUAL, For members only, IMAGING

Afgelopen week was het feest in de Metaalkathedraal. Deze ‘creatieve broedplaats’ in het pittoreske niemandsland tussen Utrecht en Leidsche Rijn kan dankzij een lening van een bank doorgroeien tot iets wat wellicht heel erg leuk kan worden voor de buurt, maar ook voor mensen aan de andere kant van de stad. http://youtu.be/a42KMzDhPks De Metaalkathedraal is een initiatief van twee kunstenaars.…

2015 is not left: 5 reasons why art is becoming more exclusive

by Wijbrand Schaap
2 January 201511 July 2016
5 min read
ACTUAL, PERSONAL

Art ends its 70th anniversary as a 'Leftist Hobby' in 2015. There is not much more to predict for this year. Art goes back to the bourgeois status it held since the start of the industrial revolution. 1: Art was never left Art, of course, has never been 'left'. Subsidy may have come from the thinking tubes of social and Christian democrats, but art an sich...

Orchestra finds name: the HET The Symphony Orchestra

by Henri Drost
20 September 201429 March 2022
4 min read
ACTUAL, For members only, MUSIC

Hooray! We have a new name. Nederlands Symfonieorkest was not allowed, *****Orkest everyone thought was a joke and reverting to the perfect name Orkest van het Oosten is not possible, because loss of face. What then?
Drumroffel…
Gewoon, het symfonieorkest. Of HET Symfonieorkest. Het Symfonieorkest.
Niet Die Orkest, wat wel een coole naam geweest zou zijn, niet 'dat', 'dit' of 'de', maar het. Alleen 'een' was nog nietszeggender geweest, maar wanhoopt niet: het blijkt wel ergens voor te staan: herke...

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Star. Five times. And then Symphony Orchestra.

by Henri Drost
21 February 201430 March 2022
3 min read
ACTUAL, For members only, OPERA

Vijfsterren Symfonieorkest. Zo gaat het Nederlands Symfonieorkest volgend seizoen heten. Het voormalige Orkest van het Oosten probeerde 'Nederlands' te worden, maar kreeg een rechtszaak aan de broek van het Philharmonisch Orkest, dat al 'Nederlands' was. 'De politiek moet zich met de rechtsgang gaan bemoeien. Want zo kan het niet langer. Dit kost bakken met geld.' Aldus Harm Mannak.
[Tweet "Directeur gooit naam symfonieorkest te grabbel."]
De directeur van het voormalige Orkest van het Oosten i...

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How two orchestras sold an international revenue model as regional

by Henri Drost
6 March 201230 March 2022
6 min read
ACTUAL, For members only, MUSIC, OPERA

Recap: There are too many orchestras in the Netherlands, the government thinks, and so a few have to go. Or merge. Now that forced merging doesn't seem to go very heartily. But you can make money out of it. In Gelderland and Overijssel, this leads to bizarre scenes. It would have been comical if it hadn't cost so much money.
Om vijf ton extra binnen te kunnen halen, trekken het Nederlands Symfonie Orkest en het Gelders Orkest één lijn. En met succes: de provinciale overheden van Overij...

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Orchestras in eastern Netherlands go slating

by Henri Drost
5 March 201229 March 2022
9 min read
ACTUAL, For members only, MUSIC, OPERA

Bijna dertien miljoen vroeg Het Gelders Orkest (HGO) aan de provincie Gelderland. Het kreeg drie-en-een-half. Precies genoeg om de korting op de rijkssubsidie de komende twee jaar op te vangen en toe te werken naar een nieuwe organisatiestructuur en een nieuw verdienmodel, zoals omschreven in een zeer ambitieus businessplan, dat…… wacht even. Hier hebben we toch al over geschreven?
Klopt. Het lijkt als twee druppels water op ons verhaal over het Nederlands Symfonie Orkest, het voormalig Orkest v...

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Amsterdam takes Netherlands Symphony Orchestra to court

by Henri Drost
23 February 201229 March 2022
2 min read
ACTUAL, For members only, MUSIC, OPERA

We schreven al uitvoerig over de naamsverandering van het Orkest van het Oosten in het Nederlands Symfonie Orkest (NSO). Ook de merkwaardige operasubsidieaanvraag gebaseerd op een businessplan dat enorme risico’s in zich draagt had onze volle aandacht. Vaste partner de Nationale Reisopera was not amused.

Inmiddels bindt ook het Nederlands Philharmonisch Orkest de strijd met het NSO aan. In de hoofdstad vinden ze dat de nieuwe naam van het Enschedese orkest wel heel erg op de eigen naam lijkt....

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'Ajax states' in sudden war between Netherlands Symphony Orchestra and National Travel Opera

by Henri Drost
13 February 20128 July 2016
9 min read
ACTUAL, MUSIC, OPERA

This week, the National Travel Opera begins rehearsals of Mozart's Le nozze di figaro. In the bin, the brand-new Netherlands Symphony Orchestra conducted by Jan Willem de Vriend. Business as usual, as the two companies have been working closely together for years and are united in the National Music Quarter Enschede. Only: orchestra and opera company have not been talking to each other since last week.

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