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‘Elke dag komt er nieuw gif bij.’ Presentatrice Naeeda Aurangzeb laat in boek ervaren wat niet-witte Nederlanders dagelijks over zich heen krijgen

by A Quattro Mani
22 June 202122 June 2021
9 min read
LITERARY, MEDIA, APPRECIATE & DONATE!

Ook al woont ze sinds haar derde in Nederland, journalist en radio-tv-presentator Naeeda Aurangzeb (47) wordt nog steeds niet voor volwaardige landgenote aangezien. In haar boek 365 dagen Nederlander geeft ze in korte schetsen een ontluisterend beeld van hoe niet-witte Nederlanders of Nederlanders met een migratieachtergrond bejegend worden. Biologiedocent tegen de klas ‘Dit noem je een olijfkleurige huid. Je kunt…

Harriet Stroet is magisterial opposite 'toadman' Ruut Weissman

by Peter Olsthoorn
20 November 202020 November 2020
4 min read
DOCUMENTARY, TELEVISION, THEATER, APPRECIATE & DONATE!

Weismann strikes me as too brilliant and intelligent a director to throw himself into an adventure that could break him for good. An alpha male, a big ego, it was well known. And couldn't keep his paws off young women.

Ex-dancer becomes painter and immediately joins Project Rembrandt

Ex-dancer becomes painter and immediately joins Project Rembrandt

by Ruben Brugman
19 October 202029 March 2022
4 min read
For members only, IMAGING, MEDIA, PERSONAL, TELEVISION, APPRECIATE & DONATE!

Since everyone advised him to just give it a try, he signed up with almost a thousand amateur painters to learn the ancient craft of painting in six months and under the watchful eye of Pieter Roelofs, head of Painting and Sculpture at the Rijksmuseum, among others.

HOLLAND FESTIVAL 2020 CANCELLED, 'ONLINE FESTIVAL' IN PREPARATION

by one of our members
22 April 2020
4 min read
ACTUAL, DANS, Holland Festival, MUSIC, OPERA, PRESS, PODIUM ART, SPECIALS, THEATER

It is with great regret that the Holland Festival is forced to cancel the 73rd edition, which was to take place from 4 to 28 June 2020. The corona pandemic's persistent, domestic and foreign restrictions and uncertainties make it impossible for the international performing arts festival to take place. The ongoing, restrictive measures that the central government had to announce 21 April last,...

Aan de Leidse Universiteit gloort het einde van het patriarchaat.

by Wijbrand Schaap
9 September 20199 September 2019
5 min read
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Dit weekend was er enige ophef op Twitter. Iets met een Nazi-vergelijking die niet helemaal lekker uitpakte. Nu is er best wel vaak ophef op Twitter vanwege een nazi-vergelijking die niet helemaal lekker uitpakt, maar dit keer betrof het toch één van onze culturele boegbeelden. Kees Vlaardingerbroek, artistiek leider van de NTR Zaterdagmatinee en voormalig hoofd programmering van het Rotterdamse…

Met een hecht team win je de wereldcup. Hoe het Holland Festival dit jaar alle cynici de mond snoerde.

by Wijbrand Schaap
24 June 201919 August 2019
4 min read
ACTUAL, Holland Festival, PODIUM ART, SPECIALS, BECOME A MEMBER

Het Holland Festival van 2019 was het beste in decennia. In ieder geval in de 25 jaar die ik er bewust van mee heb gekregen kan ik mij geen nationaal festival herinneren dat zoveel impact koppelde aan zoveel prestige. Of bezoekerstargets al of niet gehaald zijn, zal me daarbij een zorg zijn. Het is, zoals Volkskrant-collega Hein Janssen ooit opmerkte,…

Naked men and black bronzing under philosophical veneer. Is Angelica Liddell overshooting the mark with The Scarlet Letter? (Why the Holland Festival can expect a riot)

by Wijbrand Schaap
17 May 201918 May 2019
5 min read
Holland Festival, PODIUM ART, SPECIALS, SPONSORED, THEATER

That you cannot shamelessly treat a black man as a rutting primal beast and a faceless object for your unlimited lust fantasy as a white woman? Seems logical to me, but for Angélica Liddell, world-renowned performance artist, it is typical of the new puritanism that threatens free art. She now brings The Scarlet Letter to the Netherlands, a theatrical performance that is rather...

Music publicist Maarten Brandt: 'For one note from Mahler's Ninth, I would give the gift of Shostakovich's entire oeuvre'

by Thea Derks
19 November 201819 August 2019
13 min read
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Sounding Alchemy, is the name of the chunky volume recently published by music publicist Maarten Brandt (1953). It has 715 pages, including illustrations and an extensive index. In 98 articles, Brandt unfolds his views on music and music programming. He dedicated the beautifully designed book to Marius Flothuis, whom he admired and who was programmer of the Concertgebouw Orchestra for many years. His heirs received a first copy during...

'It has been seen' - Retrospective on Gerard Reve's donkey trial alongside discussion of new controversies in art

by Leo Bankersen
5 April 20185 April 2018
6 min read
ACTUAL, FILM

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.

Baltic souls by Cappella Amsterdam: Estonia 100 years independent/not independent

by Thea Derks
27 February 201830 March 2022
5 min read
For members only, MUSIC, PODIUM ART

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...

Berlinale 2018 - Young actor Jonas Smulders is the Dutch Shooting Star

by Leo Bankersen
19 February 201830 March 2022
5 min read
For members only, FILM

Jonas Smulders is among the ten most promising young actors in Europe this year, the so-called Shooting Stars. At the Berlin Film Festival, he talks about his first steps and his ambition to direct.

Public broadcasting is salvageable. (Why football should go to commercial)

by Erwin Gaur
29 September 201730 March 2022
6 min read
ACTUAL, For members only, MEDIA

Ons publieke omroepstelsel is uniek in de wereld. Dat is helaas niet iets om bijzonder trots op te zijn. Het bestel en de gedachten erachter zijn vrijwel onbegrijpelijk. Of zoals NTR-directeur Paul Römer het in augustus minder diplomatiek uitdrukte: we hebben ‘een achterlijk bestel dat aan niemand (meer) is uit te leggen’. Het was een zijlijn in zijn interview met…

Vondsten in het binnenwerk (Misha Mengelberg 1935 – 2017)

by Jaïr Tchong
3 March 201730 March 2022
4 min read
For members only, MUSIC, PODIUM ART

Er is klank; een notie van onmacht; een programma zonder kop of staart; er is kracht, kletspraat, mededogen; er is niks maar tevens een vergezicht, verhaspeld beeld vol werking en tegenwerking. Bovendien lijkt de taal hier en daar wat overspannen. Natuurlijk, onsamenhangend gezwatel kan wel degelijk gezellig zijn, of ontroeren. Onder omstandigheden kan zingeving mogelijk zijn, maar het zal niet…

Hello, here Hilversum

by Ewa Maria Wagner
15 September 201610 September 2017
3 min read
ACTUAL, IMAGING, MUSIC

Last weekend, more than 500 monuments in the Netherlands could be visited for free during the annual Open Monumentendag. Every year, this special day has a theme, this year it was 'Icons and Symbols'. After a thorough restoration, Hilversum's Studio 2 in the Muziekcentrum van de Omroep also opened its doors after 85 years. During the same week, a pop-up exhibition...

Programmer to talk: Astrid in 't Veld's dream season

by Ewa Maria Wagner
29 August 201629 March 2022
7 min read
ACTUAL, For members only, MUSIC, OPERA

When you go to a concert, you think about the music, the ensemble, the soloist and/or the conductor. Maybe you look up something about the composer but you never think about the programmer who made the concert possible. Astrid in 't Veld is someone who thinks about the range of concerts on offer years in advance in order to help you with...

Joost Galema on writing as a marine and opera singer Bastiaan Everink

by Ewa Maria Wagner
18 May 201629 March 2022
6 min read
ACTUAL, For members only, LITERARY, OPERA

Joost Galema, journalist and programme maker, was called one day by Bastiaan Everink. The baritone and ex-marine wanted to make a book about his personal struggles and how music changed his life. Not being a writer, he started looking for a ghostwriter. Joost was third on his list. A few days later, Bastiaan was standing in Joost's Hilversum living room telling his story. The singer talked about marines, survival, violence, Iraq, Wagner's music and a quest. Not a one-dimensional chronicle, Joost thought, and he decided to start working with Bastiaan. After three years

Culture Council: broadcast orchestra should broadcast more, perform less

by Wijbrand Schaap
13 May 201630 March 2022
2 min read
ACTUAL, For members only, MUSIC

The Radio Philharmonic Orchestra and the Groot Omroepkoor should focus more on broadcasting and less on concert practice. So says the Council for Culture in an opinion released today on the policy plan of the Netherlands Broadcasting Music Foundation (SOM), which includes the choir and orchestra.

While the Council is very appreciative of the Saturday matinee, are the two other series the Foundation is bringing

Depraved souls in dark times - baroque opera in Saturday Matinee

by Ewa Maria Wagner
8 February 20168 February 2016
3 min read
ACTUAL, OPERA

Baroque specialist and conductor Andrea Marcon, together with his La Cetra Barockorchester, manages to weave a fine lace work in Vivaldi's opera seria Catone in Utica (1678 - 1741), on which, among others, German soprano Anett Fritsch, Swedish mezzo-soprano Ann Hallenberg and striking Italian mezzo-soprano Francesca Ascioti shine like precious jewels. The international cast of Catone in Utica...

Welcome back to Amsterdam Huang Ruo!

by Thea Derks
11 December 201530 March 2022
5 min read
ACTUAL, For members only, MUSIC, PERSONAL

Zaterdag 13 december presenteert de NTR Zaterdagmatinee de wereldpremière van Unscrolled voor piano en orkest van de Chinees-Amerikaanse componist Huang Ruo (Hainan, 1976), met de pianist Emanuele Arciuli en het Residentie Orkest onder leiding van Emilio Pomàrico. Hiermee start zijn drie maanden durende verblijf als composer in residence van het Amsterdamse Concertgebouw. Ruo is de eerste die deze eer te…

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Voetbal en dans weer samen bij de NTR in ADO danst

by Ruben Brugman
25 August 201530 March 2022
2 min read
ACTUAL, For members only, DANS

Vanaf 22 november is de vijfdelige NTR-serie ADO danst te zien. Het is niet de eerste keer dat voetbal en dans fuseren. Het meest bekende voorbeeld van voetbal en dans is toch wel Schijnbewegingen: een NOS-film van Piet Erkelens en Pim Marks over de overeenkomsten tussen de twee verschillende werelden. Dit lieten ze zien aan de hand van gesprekken met…

Pierre Boulez leeft!?

by Thea Derks
31 March 201530 March 2022
4 min read
For members only, MUSIC

Hij is de laatste nog levende avant-gardist, en het zal nieuwemuziekliefhebbers niet ontgaan zijn dat hij op donderdag 26 maart 90 jaar werd. Ik bedoel natuurlijk Pierre Boulez, de componist en dirigent die ooit Schönberg doodverklaarde en opperde dat operahuizen misschien opgeblazen moesten worden vanwege hun vermolmde programmering. Dezelfde man brak vervolgens onvermoeibaar een lans voor de muziek van Arnold Schönberg…

The Tenth of Arrows promo

De Tiende van Tijl is good, proves Podium Witteman

by Frans van Hilten
27 March 201520 February 2017
3 min read
MEDIA, MUSIC, TELEVISION

On this website in December 2014, I broke a lance for TV programmes like Maestro, which presented classical music as too easy in the eyes of some. Those same people are also unlikely to have a good word to say about The Tenth of Ten, in which comedian Tijl Beckand introduces classical music through spectacular stories, dramatic histories, often on location in...

Reisopera's Pearl Fishermen: sober but effective

by Thea Derks
25 February 201529 March 2022
4 min read
For members only, OPERA

Even before the Noord Nederlands Orkest's final chord has fully sounded out, the audience in a well-filled Theater Carré stands up as one to cheer on the cast of Bizet's Parelvissers. We are writing 24 February 2015 and this is one of the last performances of this austere but effective production by the Nationale Reisopera. Tonight, this...

Composer Henryk Górecki: art or kitsch?

by Thea Derks
12 February 201530 March 2022
4 min read
ACTUAL, For members only, MUSIC

This Saturday, 14 February 2015, Reinbert de Leeuw will conduct the Radio Philharmonic Orchestra in Polish composer Henryk Górecki's (1933-2010) Fourth Symphony at the NTR Saturday matinee. Górecki established his name overnight in 1992, when the CD of his Third Symphony shot to the top of the classical charts like a flare. The recording of this Symphony...

NTR Podium

Not just Kunststof TV, NTR Podium is also ending. Long live Podium Witteman.

by Ruben Brugman
29 December 201411 July 2016
2 min read
ACTUAL

NTR Podium: hét televisieprogramma over muziek en dans, stopt ermee. Vanavond is de laatste uitzending met het Harmonium van John Adams door het Residentie Orkest. In 2015 maakt NTR Podium plaats voor het nieuwe Podium Witteman. Dat gaat vooral over klassieke muziek en jazz.

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