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Ondertussen houdt November Music de moed erin: de directie zet in op live concerten met maximaal dertig man publiek. In een email-update naar pers en publiek uitte ze wel haar zorgen: ‘Het worden enkele spannende dagen. Na de persconferentie van a.s. dinsdag weten we of November Music 2020 definitief door kan gaan.

Altviolist Emlyn Stam van New European Ensemble: ‘Het mooiste moet nog komen!’

November Music heeft dit jaar niet alleen een huiscomponist, maar ook een huisgezelschap, het New European Ensemble. De Haagse club speelt vanzelfsprekend mee in het openingsconcert met het Bosch Requiem van Seung-Won Oh. En natuurlijk presenteren ze een portretconcert met greatest hits van composer-in-residence Kaija Saariaho.

We'll never let you down: tribute to legendary cellist Jacqueline Du Pré

In 1987 bezweek de Britse cellolegende Jacqueline Du Pré aan multiple sclerose, 42 jaar oud. Hoewel ze al vijftien jaar geen concerten meer had gespeeld spoelde er een golf van verdriet over de wereld. In haar korte carrière had ze meer bereikt dan menig ander musicus in zijn of haar hele leven.

Festival Circolo 2020 cancelled

Het festival is aan het zoeken naar mogelijkheden om op korte termijn alsnog delen van het programma te presenteren. Dat is een spannende puzzel omdat niet duidelijk is hoe lang de beperkende maatregelen van kracht blijven of misschien nog worden uitgebreid.

Everyone saved? Only a few festivals suffered heavy damage.

The total of eight festivals that were given a place in the Basic Cultural Infrastructure thanks to vigorous political lobbying are in the clear. They do not benefit from the extra millions released by the Cabinet on Budget Day to rescue the Performing Arts Fund, because they are not (or no longer) covered by it.

Kaija Saariaho central composer at November Music: subtle timbres paint inky black scenario

Pièce de résistance will be the brand new Reconnaissance (Rusty Mirror Madrigal) for choir, percussion and double bass. Saariaho composed it commissioned by November Music and the Donaueschinger Musiktage. The first performance was scheduled at the German festival, which, however, was also cancelled. - A stroke of luck for November Music.

Burn letter from festivals: 'It's going wrong with the performing arts in the Netherlands'

A fire letter from the United Performing Arts Festivals. One of more than a hundred lobbying organisations in the arts, but a very important one. After all, the festivals are the place where audiences were introduced to arts and entertainment in its full breadth. That doesn't happen anywhere else. And beautiful: they stand up for all performing arts, because, as loyal readers of this site know: they are quite the hare, and become even more the hare with every half-hearted rescue.

Dutch focus on November Music 2020: Ticket sales start Thursday 10 September

November Music geeft dit jaar 10 opdrachten aan Nederlandse en 2 aan buitenlandse componisten, waaronder een koorwerk voor de Finse componiste Kaija Saariaho. Traditioneel opent November Music met het Bosch Requiem op vrijdag 6 november dat dit jaar natuurlijk een extra lading krijgt. De Koreaans-Nederlandse componiste Seung-Won Oh laat zich inspireren door het dodenritueel YeonDo dat Koreaanse begrafenistradities verbindt met het katholieke geloof. Na Kate Moore en Calliope Tsoupaki is zij de derde vrouwelijke componist van het Bosch Requiem op rij.

'Sender Boulevard': Intimate and grand. A successful exercise in getting closer.

Under the banner 'Sender Boulevard', the organisers of Theatre Festival Boulevard signed up for six weeks of live encounters in 's-Hertogenbosch. More than 40 different projects delivered an extraordinary variety of performances, performances and installations. Based on the theme 'Nader de ander' (Closer to the other), Boulevard more than ever entered into dialogue with makers and audience, which led to an intense dialogue with results.

Down with the veil! Three gutsy girls found Iranian Women Composers Union: 'We want to form a global home front'

Things can change. In 1979, Iran changed from a Western-oriented secular state to a spiritual dictatorship, where Islamic leaders call the shots. Women must henceforth go through life veiled and music is banned as extremely sinful. Four decades later, three women founded the Iranian Female Composers Association. In America, though. 'Music is like a drug, those who feel... 

Life has turned into a B-Movie, and no better location could be imagined than 'Sender Boulevard'

Exterior, day. A deserted street in a southern Dutch town, unusually bright daylight. No sound. A man drives up and parks at a vacant power point. He walks to the entrance of a large, empty, modernist building. He is greeted by a very very old veteran, who tells him that "the wife is in for a moment", "she asked me to go on the... 

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