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Important things happened in Utrecht during Gaudeamus Festival 2024

by Wijbrand Schaap
8 September 202410 September 2024
6 min read
Featured, MUSIC, PODIUM ART, APPRECIATE & DONATE!

On Saturday, I caught myself having a wonderfully sexist thought. Not surprising, probably, as sexist thoughts appear to be in the standard package of the product 'man'. But there I was, sitting in a not so very full auditorium during the Gaudeamus Festival at For Real by Andrea Voets. There, the idea struck me that it was pretty weird to see a woman concentrated...

Fair Practice Awards for November Music and Black Pencil show how much there is still to be gained

by Wijbrand Schaap
10 September 202310 September 2023
4 min read
policy, MUSIC, APPRECIATE & DONATE!

Of course, we can continue to complain about the poor treatment of our artists, we can also approach it with a positive slant. That must have been the consideration of composers' interest group Nieuw Geneco when establishing the 'Fair Practice Awards'. On Friday 8 September, they were presented at Utrecht's TivoliVredenburg for the fourth time: awards for commissioners who for once...